What to binge on this week: The Sinner, Line of Duty

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Two very different but compelling dramas head the binge list, and there is one series which should perhaps be avoided....

Millions either malnourished or obese in global nutrition crisis

Posted by in Disturbing

Too skinny or too fat.... that's the problem for millions of people in the world. And the world itself is...

Nearly Christmas: Time for the book lists!

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With new releases from literary giants such as Arundhati Roy and Paula Hawkins, as well as much-hyped debuts from a...

Conran: Life is still too short to stuff a mushroom

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In 1975, British author Shirley Conran became famous for her book, Superwoman. In it, she took on the notion which...

Climb on Uluru? It’s up to the traditional owners to decide, surely

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"(Yesterday) the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Board of Management unanimously voted to close the site to climbers. Chairman and senior...

Sexual assault, harassment, and #metoo

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Since Harvey Weinstein has  been revealed as a allegedly serial groper/rapist/sexual terrorist/abuser, the stories of women in in the work...

The lost children of Tuam: Ireland’s unquiet dead

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But the dead don’t always stay buried, writes Dan Barry of the scandal of Tuam  for The New York Times....

For Joan Didion, a clear-eyed love letter

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Joan Didion had a glittering journalistic success with Slouching Towards Jersualem in the early 1970s. But she really cemented her...