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November Archive
The Hobbit: a much anticipated premiere
30 November 2012
Tremendous excitement in the New Zealand capital this week: the first of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films had its premiere in Wellington, with a plane-load of the cast and other visitors in attendance.
Making a meal of Thanksgiving
23 November 2012
I am writing this as America turns off the lights on Thanksgiving Day.
Reading for the politically disenfranchised
16 November 2012
About a book review written by Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia, before the recent US elections.
On sacred cows
13 November 2012
three controversies
Forward? No, back!
09 November 2012
I had a bad attack of retrophilia this week as the US election results came in
The race which stops the nation
06 November 2012
We back Mitt Romney
The youth vote
02 November 2012
Last weekend I was chatting with a young relative who has just turned 16 and asked him whether he felt ready to vote.
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Jolie’s Choice
20 May 2013
Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy made headlines around the world. But is she sending women the right…
We’re all mad here
21 May 2013
That's the message of the new edition of the bible for American psychiatrists, DSM-5. Diagnostic inflation is about to become…
A fight for equality or a war on difference?
20 May 2013
To invite the government to give us phony equalities by recognising gay marriage is to invite greater state intervention into…
Star Trek: Into Darkness
20 May 2013
The familiar characters face very contemporary issues of terrorism and militarism in this nicely characterised film.
How legal euthanasia changed Belgium for ever
17 May 2013
The ideology of absolute self-determination has become sacred and unquestionable.
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