How the Marrakech Medina broke me and the creative midlife reckoning that followed. The hormonal rollercoaster of being a woman of a certain age comes with the erosion of the foundations of who you think you are as a person. I was completely unprepared for that. How is that possible? How many utterly cringeworthy videos …
Our grandmothers had survival skills. We have subscriptions. In the West, we’ve been played. And that bothers me. My answer? Grow tomatoes.
Why the West Is Terrified of Death
An Archaeologist’s Reckoning with Science, Faith and the Inevitable.
My dad was a surgeon. His favourite saying? “Life is a sexually transmitted, inevitably fatal, disease.”
This is about confronting the inevitable.
The end of all…. **this**
Why the Heritage Foundation’s new family plan should terrify you this Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day. Love it or hate it. It’s almost upon us. Colliding as it does with a moment in time when the ghastly truth about a global enterprise in the rape, exploitation and disposal of girls and young women seeps out from …
It was a top-secret intelligence report written in 1943. But it could have been written today. It’s fucking inevitable. As a day of reckoning looms on the horizon, the ship will spring a leak or twenty. That’s because rats aren’t renowned for hanging around and going down with all hands-on-deck. They start to look around …
Censorship, control, and rewriting American history I’ve discovered the line in the sand for corporate America. It’s not invading a sovereign nation to kidnap its leader. It’s also quite OK to take potshots at peaceful protesters and disappear American citizens into human cattle pens. As for sabre rattling and threatening allies and friends? Knock yourself …
Life might be telling Sunday Reilly she’s past her use-by date. But she’s not planning to go quietly.
Because Jacinta and Brian of ABC Melbourne are letting me loose in the studio Yes, really. Question is, will I be able to behave myself, or will they need to call on the famous “dump” button? Spoiler alert: no they won’t, because I’m dead professional like that. If you’re interested in hearing me bang on …
How culture outlives strongmen and rewrites history to win the war over imagination Photo by Dylan Shaw on Unsplash Tinpot dictators fucking hate art. Given where the world seems to be headed, that fact both empowers and terrifies me. Because for people like me, it means there’s work to be done. But it also means …