Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Scott Steele is – or soon to be was – the CEO of Albion Park. SEN is a cracker of a radio station, and a great promoter of sport. I’m sure that Steele didn’t tell them that he was alleged rapist on bail. But still, you have to do your due diligence don’t you? They […]
You are nothing but sucks, giant sucks. You know, like the sucks that get on the bottom of the shark’s belly? Well you are on the belly of a shark’s belly here, sucking up to them. It’s disgraceful. RAY HADLEY, 11 JULY 2022 Sorry about the poor quality of the sound. This is the bloke I […]
Looks sure do run down the female side in the Exelby family don’t they? The Australian newspaper is having great fun today making fun on Channel 10 Breakfast presenter Natasha Exelby having scored the lowest viewer ratings in TV history twice in a week, after she recorded audiences for her show of just 44 viewers […]
We are all formed as adults from our experiences as a child, but even more – consciously or unconsciously – from our deeper family experiences long, long before. For each of us the marker poles and the touchstones are different. One of mine is being a victim of child abuse – rape really, even though […]
Hawtrey last hit the headlines in 1984, when a rent boy set his house on fire. Newspaper photographs showed him naked except for a blanket without his toupee. Four years later he died as a result of peripheral vascular disease. https://laurenceraw.tripod.com/id481.html He was sacked from the Carry Ons in 1972 after turning up drunk for […]
Have I gone mad, even more so than I have ever been? Harness racing ‘expert’ Adam Hamilton reckons that the Inter Dominion – run in November December – is programmed too early in the harness racing season. Hall of Fame trainer Anthony Butt agrees. This is what he said: In the past, owners and trainers […]
Boxing is the best writer’s sport in the world. If you can’t write well about boxing, you can’t write. Thomas Hauser The words in the picture are those of Thomas Hauser, one of the great American writers. It’s a shame that the creator of the Teacher’s Pet podcast Hedley Thomas didn’t read them. This case is […]
“Edwin Pope (whose writing graced the pages of the Miami Herald for decades) felt a responsibility when he sat down to write. “I held the gun,” Pope noted. “I didn’t want to fire it randomly. I always wanted to be fair, even to people who didn’t deserve it.” When I finish writing an article – […]
“Those little voices you hear in your head aren’t sources.” Thomas Hauser (Counsel for Chris Dawson): Do you agree, just having a look at that, voice 1 is you saying “this podcast series is brought to you by The Australian”? (Hedley Thomas): Yes. Then voice 2 is someone else? A TV reporter. Voice 3 is […]
