There are those that like their meat medium rare, well done or even blue, there are others that prefer to wait for several hours and feast on butter soft morsels infused with the flavours from ‘the very long cook’. The short cooked meats align themselves with expensive cuts, “barbies” and
You may have been thinking it, but maybe you haven’t dared to discuss the possibility that there are some freaky parallels between public health’s measures of dealing with COVID-19 and how the Holocaust came to be. In this report, I interview Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav. Vera was only
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Proponents of a so-called “Indigenous Voice” endlessly whine that “Australia doesn’t recognise it’s First Nations people”. Leaving aside that grating, imported Americanism, one has to ask: what rock do the Voice proponents think we live under? Because it’s impossible to open a paper bag in Australia without
Helen Roche Durham University Dr. Helen Roche is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. Her second book, The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas, has just been published by Oxford University Press. In spring 1936, teenage schoolboy – and later war
For many years, a comforting myth endured in part of Australia: that, with the arrival of the British, the Aboriginal inhabitants of the land conveniently, somehow, just disappeared. But in recent years, an equally pernicious lie has come to rule the ivory towers of academia and the chic cafes of
Fiona E. McNeill McMaster University Fiona E. McNeill is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University. She builds biomedical devices to painlessly assess people’s body burden of toxic metals. She uses the technology in population studies to see whether exposure to poisonous metals can
Dear Editor Putin is now waiting to see if reason plus force works. Like a cat toying with a mouse. Russia destroyed Grozny to subdue the Chechen revolution. When reason didn’t work, they tried force. When force didn’t work, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin succeeded with total annihilation. To start,
As the Wordle fad hits what may be its peak (whether its sale to the New York Times is the shark-jumping moment remains to be seen), there’s no shortage of curmudgeons and grumpy-gutses. “If, like me, you love words, you should hate Wordle,” grouses the Telegraph. Psychologist Pragya Agarwal
As I am working as a full-time personal chef for a significant diplomat here in Jerusalem, my food column is pretty much limited to what I cook and create for his personal and entertainment needs. I have little spare time and energy to spend on cooking additional dishes aside from
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Eighty-four years ago, on September 12, 1938, Adolf Hitler marched into the Sudetenland, effectively annihilating the independent nation of Czechoslovakia. Yesterday Vladimir Putin recognised the
Love and marriage, so the song says, go together like a horse and carriage. But it wasn’t always so. From the modern perspective, love is the most common reason cited by Westerners for getting married (or, more commonly today, cohabiting). But the modern West is a quite peculiar place
Information Opinion February 23rd, 2022. As the crisis in Ukraine continues it is worth examining its possible global impact and how it is interlinked with other possible flashpoints. Many years ago, Kissinger influenced the likes of Nixon and Bush with his policy of triangular diplomacy regarding Russia (Soviet Union) and
Paul Luciw has lived in Hong Kong since 1991. He founded the AsiaXPAT site in 1999, and has written thousands of articles about Hong Kong and Asia powering the expat Must Reads section. Whatever the issue, if Hong Kong is involved, he’s got an opinion and usually an answer.
