FROM ROCKY AYRES, NORTHERN TERRITORY EDITOR WITH ALL the hullabaloo about the shortage of housing in Australia, many statisticians have missed a slow moving disaster creeping up on Australia: the ever increasing population of grey nomads. Recently released figures suggest that by the 2080s the grey nomad population will exceed the settled population, with most…

EDUCATION REPORTER, D. CALCULUS FORGET SWITZERLAND. FORGET ENGLAND. FORGET AMERICAN MILITARY COLLEGES. AND FORGET HOGWARTS. The world’s most exclusive school is actually in outback Australia. The Outback College for Young Ladies of Good Families charges $1 million a year, not including extras. Each student has her own house, complete with servants, gym, Jacuzzi and swimming…

HEALTH DESK DECLINING MARRIAGE statistics around the globe may have a scientific as well as a social basis, as doctors conclude that certain groups of married men are more likely to suffer dementia than their single brothers. “It’s a fine line,” explained Dr Malthus Krippen, “because we’re dealing with numbers that include people who have…

FROM MOSCOW REPORTERS SUCH IS THE INTEREST among Russian troops in the axing of Phillip Schofield from Breakfast Television show This Morning, that Kremlin bigwigs suspect the whole sordid soap opera, which has garnered vast amounts of coverage in the British press, is actually a diversion to draw Moscow’s attention away from troop build ups…

LONDON EDITOR THE PROSPECT OF Britain’s Royal Air Force training Ukrainian fighter pilots, as declared by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, raises two interesting questions: 1) does this mean Ukraine will be receiving F35 and Typhoon Eurofighter jets from NATO, as they are the mainstay of Britain’s air force? and 2) is there is a chance…

IRISH EDITOR AND WIRE SERVICES IT CAME out of the blue on a BBC live discussion program. Ulster Unionist politician Danny Kennedy, whose party has not had the best of recent local council elections in Northern Ireland, admitted to telling his Irish Nationalist rivals, Sinn Fein, that their running so many candidates in his electoral…

FROM MILAN, ITALY AN ITALIAN CLINIC specializing in chemical diets has reported that a patient who overdosed on some of the clinic’s special diet pills, disappeared while two nurses were trying to pump his stomach. Signor Grasso (not his real name), an American with a fried chicken habit, was allegedly so overweight that he had…

FROM OUR FINANCE EDITOR WESTERN GOVERNMENTS struggling with inflation and high interest rates, have come up with a radical plan to raise more revenue by taxing people who use plural pronouns to describe themselves as just that, plurals. “It’s usual to tax individuals, even as couples, but as these trans people have suggested that they…

FROM OUR TEENAGE ADDICTION EDITOR, IN CYBERSPACE IT’S ALWAYS been the holy grail of teen-focused internet sites: that they speak to teenagers in their own unique tongue. This is even more the case with Artificial Intelligence, which seeks not only to communicate with teens but to imitate them to such an extent that the difference…

SCIENCE DESK AN EXPERIMENT conducted by students of the Attic Institute, a Holocaust research centre based in Tel Aviv, Israel, has found that the speeches of Adolf Hitler, played in public places, at a very low frequency, which is hardly audible to humans, produced a curious reaction in Germany: many people involuntarily came to attention.…