In tune with one another

You can read this as a book about the music industry. You can read it as a book about the mysterious synergies of art. Or you can read it is a book about the non-erotic love that can exist between men. It is a theme which arises in sport where it is quickly reduced to clichés and thereby belittled. This book is much more like the real thing.

Peace lies in the middle ground, not on the extremist edges

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The atrocity in Nice on Bastille Day felt like the worst of all the recent atrocities. The most heartless, the most demented.

Reasons to be worried

She was blonde, bulky and she'd been drinking. She told us with deafening certainty that it was "inappropriate" to talk politics in a New York bar.

Mystery man whose song defined 1970s Australia

Gypsy Queen is a song of the road no less than the poem Walt Whitman wrote a century earlier.

Face that launched a thousand rip-offs

There were plenty of good-looking actresses around in her day but, as a star, she has outshone them all.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm really not that old

It's not the end I mind. It's the bits and pieces dropping off along the way like a rusty old car with the exhaust pipe dropping off.

Multiculturalism: not an ideal, but a reality

We need to create human societies from people of many different backgrounds.

Many happy returns to Tassie

Tasmania has a scandal that the rest of Australia would do well to learn about.

60 Minutes: overcooked and insincere

The Lebanon child-abduction saga has given us a revealing insight into the culture of commercial TV current affairs.