I heard something on the news the other day that immediately made me think of George Orwell, the author of 1984, and Animal Farm etc. I can’t remember the full context of the item, I think it was about our army (or the American army) reviewing current...

It’s election day for my state’s government. I hope the local candidate that I voted for gets in because he’s a hard-working, community conscious dude who does a great job. I’m fairly confident he’ll do okay as the local community...

Leanne was my “prickly” friend. Her life seemed to lurch from one source of pain to another: her husband had an accident and as a result was paralysed; she lost her job; she developed severe agoraphobia; she lost another job; she began to question the...