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Van Badham

The Guardian

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Norwich pizza chefs are waging war over pineapple. But they’re just the latest to put a tax on taste

Norwich pizza chefs are waging war over pineapple. But they’re just the latest to put a tax on taste
15.01.2025 10

The Guardian

Van Badham

They say Musk has turned the GOP into the new punk rock but I say ‘never mind the bollocks’

Elon, enough! In the past two weeks, the world’s richest man has teased economic Armageddon in the US, spruiked for a violent far-right extremist...

06.01.2025 20

The Guardian

Van Badham

In the spirit of both Zen and Christmas holidays, I’ve decided to become a digital dropout

It’s the last fortnight of December, time to reappraise the traditions of shared holiday rituals. Will Australians once more create kitchen-bound...

20.12.2024 10

The Guardian

Van Badham

A social media ban for everyone is in the national interest – not just kids under 16

The Australian government has proposed a ban on social media for all citizens under 16. Citing the success of recently introduced restrictions on...

21.11.2024 30

The Guardian

Van Badham

Women need to be kept safe from the ‘your body, my choice’ peddlers. Here’s how

“Your body, my choice” wrote the troll on a post about my mother dying. It was meant to intimidate me. Instead, it’s launched me into strategy...

16.11.2024 3

The Guardian

Van Badham

King Charles, know this: Australians don’t hate the royals – we just wish you’d lose interest in us

It’s 25 years since Australia voted “no” in a referendum to become a republic – but to suggest the negative 1999 result symbolised an enduring...

16.10.2024 3

The Guardian

Van Badham

A South Australian MP’s mad anti-abortion bill shows the culture wars are far from over

I spend an uncommon amount of time in South Australia for a person who doesn’t actually live there; I’d never heard of South Australian Liberal MP...

26.09.2024 2

The Guardian

Van Badham

Yes, more Australians should have access to IVF – but talk of a fertility ‘problem’ has the the scent of old patriarchy

The problem with talking about IVF is that anyone who knows anything about it has lived their experience with some degree of trauma. So reports...

21.09.2024 1

The Guardian

Van Badham

Fearing AI, I was reluctant to use ChatGPT. But friends, it changed my life

It’s easy to be convinced that the myriad applications of AI pave a fun but nonetheless alarming digital path towards doom, doom, doom. Let’s start...

11.09.2024 3

The Guardian

Van Badham

Why are men who murder women seen as less of a threat than terrorists?

Australia’s domestic, family and sexual violence commissioner, Micaela Cronin, said this week that the scourge of violence against women and...

22.08.2024 30

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Van Badham

Girls, ignore the sexist rhetoric. Revel in everything that upsets the haters

The saga of the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif at the Olympics. The explosive Times feature about the “tradwife” Hannah Neeleman. Whatever has...

10.08.2024 2

The Guardian

Van Badham

Is flirting dying? The apps appear to have swallowed the most delicate and delicious of human interactions

Is flirting dying? Yes, claims a preternaturally cynical 24-year-old Los Angelean interviewed by NBC News in the US earlier this month. “If someone...

20.07.2024 1

The Guardian

Van Badham