TweetI can’t tell you how much I loathe the cult of Australian Idol. some fellow music lovers see it as a good thing; the expansion of the music market. “It gets people passionate about music”, they argue. My argument is … Continue reading
TweetThe British Labour Government has introduced a raft of bills into Parliament which ban particular activities and make others compulsory – minor activies including eating habits, smoking and recreation. These restrictions on personal freedoms, while well meaning and with noble … Continue reading
TweetA great little piece on the Ludwig von Mises site outlining some of the cultural and psychological frameworks with which we classify ourselves. Capitalist? Socialist? Liberal? Anarchist? None of the above? Check it out…
TweetThe CD is dead. When will the record companies wake up and smell the coffee? In one of my earlier posts I spoke of how the new economy was passing the industry by and that the obsession with distribution networks … Continue reading
TweetA very good (yet sad) article in today’s The Australian about how the Palestinian people have been cheated of wealth and liberty by the thieving, manipulative and destructive ways of Yasser Arafat. While he “represented” (and I do use the … Continue reading
TweetOn November 11th, 1975 the Governor General, Sir John Kerr, dismissed the Whitlam Labor Government and called for an election to be held on December 13, 1975. Gough Whitlam had presided over the three most horrible, pathetic and tumultuous years … Continue reading
TweetAt this moment on Remembrance Day we remember the sacrifices of the Diggers who fought bravely in World War One to guarantee our basic freedoms. As we live our lives, our daily grind, we should never take for granted those … Continue reading
TweetThe sequel to one of the greatest games ever released, Halo, has been released to the public. On the evening of September 8th, hordes of gamers clamoured around retail outlets looking to be one of the first to buy Halo … Continue reading
TweetI can’t say I’m a huge fan of the Olympics. Generally I feel that when travel was long and tumultuous, when sports didn’t have peak sporting bodies such as FIFA and the Tennis Players Association, when it was amatuer and … Continue reading
TweetToday marks the 15 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The greatest symbol of oppression and truma of the socialist years stood from 1961 to 1989, dividing a city and cleaving the social, business and functions of … Continue reading