Moonballs from Planet Earth

The last blog post was about Barbie, much reviled by feminists for warping the way girls think about themselves. My take was that Barbie was...

Barbie is right up there, along with McDonald’s and the Marlboro Man, as a capitalist icon that liberals love to hate. Not without reason. B...

Just made sense of a lyric I've heard many times before, but never quite understood. "The girl on the half-shell" from Joan B...

Was Clement Attlee a great Prime Minister? Or was he a bungling idiot? This feels like an interesting question right now, because the two is...

Gezellig - space and people coming together in harmony, that special spirit of cosy fellowship that animates Dutch life - would be an excel...

Re-interpreted classics can so easily go wrong. Like, say, The Thomas Crown Affair . Sorry, but nobody compares with Steve McQueen, certainl...

My previous post on the English crowds booing Ricky Ponting drew some interesting feedback…thanks for the engagement. Some readers suggest...