James Valentine writer and author James Valentine writer and author

Each week I write a column for the Australian and another for Northside. Every day I write my radio show. Some of it ends up here.

Privates in Public

Posted: 22-Jan-2013

Some human physical activity should always be done in private ...

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You

Posted: 22-Nov-2012

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Gridlock In My Brain

Posted: 15-Oct-2012

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Goodness!

Posted: 03-Oct-2012

A helpful list of mild,  forgotten  and little used curses and insults. There was a time when even these were offensive and were not to be used in mixed company or upon the stage.

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I Now Pronounce Thee Husband and Beast

Posted: 21-Sep-2012

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If there is Man-Flu, there must also be Girl-Flu.

Posted: 04-Aug-2012

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I'm really jealous of Stephen Fry...

Posted: 13-Jul-2012

 

 

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Why Not an Adult Naplan?

Posted: 19-May-2012

KIds have to do a test to see if they're functioning. Why not you?

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We're all unrool!

Posted: 12-May-2012

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I like Harley's and dirty denim vests...

Posted: 06-May-2012

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There Will Never Be A Second Sydney Airport...

Posted: 15-Apr-2012

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Remembrance of Biscuits Past

Posted: 10-Mar-2012

If we can no longer invent new biscuits, what else have we lost?

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The Dog Sits On The Tuckerbox...WTF?

Posted: 26-Jan-2012

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Australians Let Us All Rejoice ...

Posted: 24-Jan-2012

Australia Day, marks the arrival of Captain Don Bradman in the First Fleet of Holden Cars ...

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I Have Seen 2012...

Posted: 28-Dec-2011

Likely trends for the year ahead ...

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A Christmas Vidatorial...

Posted: 16-Dec-2011

An Open Letter to Santa 

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No One Likes the Little Drummer Boy

Posted: 08-Dec-2011

 

At what birth are drums a good idea? 

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You're not a real Sydney person until you've been in front of ICAC.

Posted: 25-Nov-2011

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We Are All Going To Live Forever

Posted: 22-Oct-2011

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Harvest Not The Wisdom Of The Ages.

Posted: 15-Oct-2011

Did you know you can buy a Deepak Chopra notebook full of blank pages...?

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You know you've turned fifty when...

Posted: 17-Sep-2011

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New Proverbs for a Post Steam Age.

Posted: 08-Sep-2011

The early adopter pays the piper.

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Is it unreasonable to ask for more reasonableness?

Posted: 28-Aug-2011

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If Tom, Dick and Harry want to get married, what's it got to do with you?

Posted: 21-Aug-2011

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This is the Australia I live in...

Posted: 15-Aug-2011

David Marr says there is a different Australia out there. I'm with him. And I live there. 

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The Banana Crisis

Posted: 01-Aug-2011

Will this Banana crisis ever end??

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The National Heritage People List

Posted: 22-Jul-2011

We need such a list. We need to preserve John Eliot as he is right now...

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Space. The Frontier is Final.

Posted: 15-Jul-2011

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The Impossible Dream

Posted: 11-Jul-2011

We dream no more of the quarter acre block. We dream now of a laundry in a cupboard...

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Sorry, Nanny

Posted: 08-Jul-2011

This Namby Pamby PC Gone Mad Do Gooder Nanny State Really Sucks...

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Bravo Adam!

Posted: 01-Jul-2011

There are certain publications that inspire immediate envy. I'm very envious of  Adam Mansbach , the author of Go the Fuck to Sleep. It's the greatest praise one writer can give another. 

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