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Richard Glover is a columnist.

Should parking inspectors feel bad about doing their job?
Opinion
Workplace

Should parking inspectors feel bad about doing their job?

Even these derided professions deserve some respect, surely.

  • by Richard Glover

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The ‘proper shoe’ is dead. Comfort has defeated style
Opinion
Style

The ‘proper shoe’ is dead. Comfort has defeated style

We are now, surely, just a generation off the arrival of the wedding UGG boot.

  • by Richard Glover
Give me back my landline, my desk drawers, and my dreary old office
Opinion
Comedy

Give me back my landline, my desk drawers, and my dreary old office

The modern office space is a noisy, annoying, overcrowded travesty.

  • by Richard Glover
Quiche used to seem amazing, when did we become so immune to delight?
Opinion
Spectrum

Quiche used to seem amazing, when did we become so immune to delight?

Is there a way to recapture that enthusiasm? To channel our younger selves, and remember our giddy surprise?

  • by Richard Glover
Time and time again, I find myself running away from exercise
Opinion
Wellness

Time and time again, I find myself running away from exercise

If I do the exercises I’ll develop strong legs and not limp around the office in a way that brings sympathy.

  • by Richard Glover
Bookkeeper or insect killer? Everyone has a role to play in a family
Opinion
Family

Bookkeeper or insect killer? Everyone has a role to play in a family

There’s no pleasure in life greater than being asked to open a jar of olives by a loved one.

  • by Richard Glover
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Eight pressing questions I’ve left unanswered for decades
Opinion
Comedy

Eight pressing questions I’ve left unanswered for decades

The answers are surely a quick Google away. But do I really need to know?

  • by Richard Glover
Help, I’m pathetically addicted to loyalty points
Opinion
Comedy

Help, I’m pathetically addicted to loyalty points

Fifty bonus points for slivered almonds I’m never going to use? Sign me up!

  • by Richard Glover
The everyday debates guaranteed to start an argument
Opinion
Comedy

The everyday debates guaranteed to start an argument

Do you stack your cutlery in the dishwasher pointy end up or down?

  • by Richard Glover
The clever everyday objects that will baffle future historians
Opinion
Comedy

The clever everyday objects that will baffle future historians

As the world changes we are forgetting that eggcups, soft drink bottles and coat hangers once had a whole host of other uses.

  • by Richard Glover
Forget siblings, the best family relationship is cousins
Opinion
Family

Forget siblings, the best family relationship is cousins

Your cousin is you but also not you, like yourself in a misty mirror.

  • by Richard Glover