Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Damon Runyon was, to people like you and me, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. As a journalist he covered everything – racing, sport, gambling crime, life, the lot – and he did it all with aplomb. Sport, the punt and horses aren’t modern day writer Matthew Condon’s thing, but crime is. […]
Yesterday The Australian published a commentary piece written by a woman named Dr Muriel Newman. You can read it here. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/this-is-what-makes-the-ardern-government-so-dangerous/news-story/602acabba81dbfaba1adb83192123bd7 In the article, Newman inferred and all but stated that NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Arden was Josef Stalin, and her government were leaders of a repressive, totalitarian regime that ‘destroyed’ lives of unvaccinated people. […]
Chris Dawson, aged 73, is on trial for his life. He is alleged to have killed his wife Lyn more than 40 years ago. If convicted Dawson will die in jail. As most of Australia is aware, this prosecution has been spurred by journalist Hedley Thomas’s hugely popular podcast series The Teachers Pet, in which […]
