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You realise you’ve rattled Coke’s cage when they just shut up shop and refuse to talk to you. Won’t return you calls, won’t return your emails. It’s kind of irritating. Especially after they had been sending me smarmy emails through my website since my last spray against their stupid “myth-busting” campaign - saying they were happy to chat. I couldn’t speak to them. So I spoke to the author of Anti-Coke bible Sweet Poison: Why Sugar Makes Us Fat. Click HERE to read on, an to LISTEN to the interview.

Of all the mean things Howard did, locking up women and children in desert detention centres, putting teenagers on AWAs, refusing to say sorry to the stolen generations and killing our chance to become a republic - destroying student organisations was by far the meanest. It was a vindictive and nasty move, initiated by David Kemp and Peter Costello, purely because they had been unsuccessful student politicians in a milieu which favours the left. Young people are, by nature, idealistic and progressive. Click HERE to read on.

What do you do when someone offers to fly you to the Gold Coast to party with the uber-hot contestants of Miss F1 at the ultra-swank Palazzo Versace? Well, if you’re still trying to hold onto a few scraps of left-wing principle like me you politely refuse… or do you?  Click HERE to find out… and to WATCH the footage.

You only have to say the word ‘Scientology’ to get a response. Sometimes it’s a laugh, sometimes it’s a roll of the eyes, but usually it’s a quip about Tom Cruise. However in the world of the internet mention Scientology and you’ll get a storm of commentary. And it won’t be for giggles. Both supporters and opponents will go at it hammer and tongs at the slightest mention of anything remotely connected to the religion / cult / scam (depending on who you listen to). A recent story… click HERE to read on and to LISTEN to my interview with the Scientologists.

People’s reaction to yesterday’s story - that staff allegedly had been asked to masturbate intellectually impaired clients at a New Zealand disability services company - was startling. It ended up being one of the most read of the day. And sure, it was probably mostly because of the giggle factor.  But as usual behind something funny is actually something serious… i decided to look deeper, click HERE to LISTEN.

Fear has long been one of the mainstays of the conservative side of politics. You know the line: “Don’t dare to change anything, or dream of a better society, because you’ll bugger the whole thing.” But it has to be said fear, paranoia and suspicion are extraordinarily useful – especially if you’re part of the activist right who get to pen a weekly missive in the pages of Rupert Murdoch’s ultra-stodgy Australian. So what was Albrechtsen choosing to scare us about this week? Teachers. You see Albrechtsen… click HERE.