Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.
Rex MurphyHollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.
Rex MurphyEverything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.
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