Ghosts are everywhere … if you know where to look
There’s no need to attend seances where, in artfully darkened rooms, fraudulent mediums spew ectoplasm and implore ghosts to levitate tables.
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What does a biodiversity census of my farm reveal?
Noah could overfill his ark at Elmswood. And given the threat of climate change, we’d like to provide more passengers for his cruise ship.
This 60s counterculture group mixed humour with protest
The Yippies packed a wallop, mainly through the originality of their approach. They threatened to pour LSD into US dams so that everyone would get high … and they tried to elect a pig to the White House.
History’s dumpster is filling up with relics of our recent past
Ladies Lounges in pubs. Hitchhikers. Cassettes. Using torn-up newspaper dangling from a nail as dunny paper. We are leaving so many iconic features of our past behind us. What will I miss most?
How Monopoly began its life on the left wing
Our story begins in 1903, when an American lady named Lizzie Magie, an ardent anti-monopolist (and follower of Henry George’s views on taxation), created The Landlord’s Game.
The unexpected start to my friendship with Lady Joan Lindsay
My story begins with a telly show I did half a century ago, when the ABC sent me to review an exhibition of Norman Lindsay’s paintings. Knowing little of art and less of Lindsay I was perfectly unqualified, but that didn’t stop me.
Midnight on the Doomsday Clock looms. Will we ever learn?
More pandemics, old and new, are in the wind. A war is raging on Europe’s doorstep. And joy of joys, Donald Trump has secured a second term in the Failed Sate of the US. It seems the only thing we learn from history is how to repeat it.
Here’s why I’m a devout Shakespearean
I believe the Second Coming has already come, and occurred in Elizabethan England.
Isn’t it time for a puff of prettier smoke to announce a female Pope?
We’re used to female PMs and Premiers. We’ve even survived a few queens and women as GG. Even the Ancient Egyptians had a female Pharaoh. It’s time for change at the Vatican.
Not even Musk can escape the great democracy of death
For all his trillions and SpaceX toys under development, Elon cannot escape the gravitational pull of mortality or the feeling of dread that fills the soul when contemplating the cold mechanics of the universe.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/phillip-adams