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Swear words: sometimes a blessing but in this case a curse

Swear words: sometimes a blessing but in this case a curse
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Canberra Times

Ian Warden

What happens when agnostic knuckles knock on Heaven's door?

What happens when agnostic knuckles knock on Heaven's door?
28.02.2025 10

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Some of my devilishly clever ways to avoid Trump's evils

21.02.2025 3

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

How will Canberra look after there are no humans left to tend it?

14.02.2025 8

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Once more with feeling: why bots will never replace real poets

07.02.2025 7

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Australia lovable, sure. But great? That might be taking it too far

31.01.2025 4

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Explosive Pompeii exhibition gets me thinking... what if?

24.01.2025 5

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

What if we poor creatures are unable to both vote and think at the same time?

17.01.2025 10

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Fight brain rot with all you've got

10.01.2025 7

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

How to remain buoyant when life takes an unexpected arc

These are such post-Christian times that one wonders if many parents who name their baby boys Noah (just announced as the most popular name given...

03.01.2025 6

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Interpreting our dreams might help explain the world's horrors

Once upon a time I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not...

27.12.2024 4

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Turns out, fellow Canberrans, that the quiet life isn't so bad

Canberrans, are you getting enough silence in your lives? Login or signup to continue reading My latest online newsletter from Nautilus, the...

20.12.2024 6

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Hot under the collar? Try deliberate ignorance - it's a thing

As invited celebrities and potentates settled into their pews for last Saturdays service to mark the re-opening of Pariss restored/rebuilt Notre...

13.12.2024 3

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Even Jesus is being replaced by AI? I'm intrigued, I must confess

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars Login or signup to continue reading Any heart not strong enough To take a lot of pain, take a lot of...

06.12.2024 5

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

How I wish I could achieve that limbo state between life and death

For those of us investigating ways in which to survive the coming Trump presidency (and more specifically the daily, disgust-stoking news reporting...

29.11.2024 6

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Shooting for the moon and migration make-believe? Bring it on!

When the birds of the common koel species Eudynamys orientalis are not here with us in Canberra, are they perhaps on the moon? Login or signup to...

22.11.2024 5

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Why I've enforced a no-news bubble for these Trump-troubled times

Australians all, how are we to explain the dismay, the horror that so many Australians are feeling and openly showing at the election of Donald...

15.11.2024 3

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Only divine intervention will save the Canberra Liberals

Who is Saint Rita of Cascia and what is her special relevance to the Canberra of today, to the despairing Canberra Liberals and their despairing...

08.11.2024 1

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Trump makes me wonder about being senile with style

"In 1977 I shall be 142. I must begin to take on the dignities and gravities proper to that season of honourable senility which is on its way and...

01.11.2024 3

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

This isn't Camilla's first time in Canberra - her spirit was here in 1983

The presence of King Charles and Queen Camilla in Canberra this week sent the mature-age mind foxtrotting back to 1983 when Charles visited...

25.10.2024 2

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

As Canberrans, we know we're in a good paddock. Why not milk it?

The moon belongs to everyone Login or signup to continue reading The best things in life are free The stars belong to everyone They gleam there for...

18.10.2024 2

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Face it, Canberra. What's lacking here is some windows to the soul

All fun-loving, thrilled-by-politics Canberrans love the ways in which Canberra's thoroughfares are presently decorated by the portrait-corflutes...

11.10.2024 3

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Yes, US election politics are shocking. But at least they're not boring

News-addicted readers, lend me your ears! Give me your advice! Login or signup to continue reading If you're quite unable to ignore the 24/7...

04.10.2024 3

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

I admit it: I prefer pets to people - particularly political animals

Like pet owners everywhere I have been trying to shield my companion animals from the ongoing news coverage following Trump's allegations that bad...

27.09.2024 1

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Are you sitting down as I'm about to rock your world, big time

Thinking readers, lend me your nimble and not-easily-boggled minds as I serve you two contrasting and newsworthy measurements of passages of Time....

20.09.2024 2

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Roadside posters of cackling candidates are verging on ridiculous

Just like the flowers that bloom in the spring (tra la), the corflute portrait posters of candidates in next month's ACT election have suddenly...

13.09.2024 1

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

I know less about Elizabeth Lee than Joan my tennis ball machine

With October 19's ACT election looming, I am marvelling that I know less about the personality of Canberra Liberals' leader Elizabeth Lee than I...

07.09.2024 3

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

There's no place for sore losers in this slice of Canberra life

Hope is the thing with feathers Login or signup to continue reading That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops...

30.08.2024 1

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Why don't we give Ricky the boot, Canberra?

Kamala Harris, in recent days sweeping onward and upward at the Democrats' rapturous jamboree in Chicago, seems well qualified to become the first...

23.08.2024 2

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Turning off and tuning out: the vital life skill you just can't ignore

If everything you see and hear in the news media about the disgusting Donald Trump turns your stomach and makes you despair (this columnist's...

16.08.2024 1

Canberra Times

Ian Warden

Let's put our giant heads together to celebrate Canberra's big wins

Some of the inspirational things the French have done to adorn and celebrate their city for these splendiferous Olympic Games should, surely, be...

09.08.2024 1

Canberra Times

Ian Warden