Vale David Savage, behaviouralist extraordinaire
We lost David Savage this week to a heart attack at the age of 48, leaving a wife Deborah and many colleagues around the world....
Some favourite anti-lockdown art
I here want to salute the brave artists who used their talents to capture the inhumanity and essential insanity of lockdowns. My favourite is the...
A review of “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”, the prequel to “The Hunger Games”.
[spoiler alert!] As a fan of the “Hunger Games”, a dystopian trilogy where teenagers are thrown into gladiatorial games to fight till the last survivor...
It is 1984. A message from London.
People shuffling in the street, afraid to look others in the eye, get close, and be accused. Fear as a silent ghost hovering above the...
The Public Goods of the 21st Century
For those of you in Melbourne, I thought I'd let you know of a public lecture I'm giving on Thursday night this coming week details below. If you'd like to come,...
Is Catholicism in rude health? 2017 edition
Looking at the newspapers you’d think Catholicism is having a hard time with philandering priests and cover-ups of their doings being found out on a...
Some Game of Thrones Season 8 speculation
Let me indulge, purely for entertainment value, in some fan-speculation on what we will see on-screen after the Long Night is over and the final...