Monthly Archives: January, 2010
Return to Eden: when Australian tv was at it’s cheesiest…and best.
I have been enjoying some real television nostalgia over the past few nights – Return to Eden. The last time I saw this show I had just had my first baby, 24 years ago, and it is funny how it has made me relive what was a unique time in my life. There they all [...]
The Iraq Inquiry: Tony Blair and Saddam Hussein
Is this about the war in Iraq or just Tony Blair and George W Bush’s obsession with Saddam Hussein? Tony Blair is appearing before the Iraq Inquiry to justify why he sent British servicemen and women to fight a war that they did not need to be involved in. That they are doing a brilliant [...]
Why I cannot feel any sympathy at all for parents like Fiona Donnison
Fiona Donnison is, this morning, recovering in hospital under police guard while her two beautiful young children are lying on slabs in the mortuary. I know already – that sounds like a dreadfully cold and distasteful introduction to an article but what at all is a nice or sympathetic approach to a story about a [...]
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