Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.
Rex MurphyHollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.
Rex MurphyThe Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?
Rex Murphy