There are many reasons why we should not legalise euthanasia.

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Carbon is the sixth element in the periodic table. It is unique among the elements in the vast number and variety of compounds it can form.

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Behind me the ladies ate Maltesers, in a satirical manner, while talking of crumbling bones and ABC reruns of As Time Goes By.

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Many reasons have been put forward for John Howard’s failure to win the 2007 election—negative reaction to WorkChoices, his refusal to abdicate in favour of Peter Costello, even a sense that he had just been in power too long—but there was another issue which suffused the Opposition campaign and which played a major part in persuading voters: climate change, in particular the recent drought.

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In the ancient fable, Chicken Little thought one acorn dropping on her head meant the entire sky was falling. Today’s Chicken Littles show similar insight.

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The hero of a Stephen Sewell play, and clearly his creator’s alter ego, says: “People change.

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Sometime after the Soviet Army had crushed the Dubcek regime in Prague in 1968, our great cold-war warrior, Frank Kopfelmacher, was described by his opponents in condescending and patronising tones as a “threat expert”.

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In ‘The Task of the Jews’, The American Interest, September-October 2008, Lévy writes.

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Damien Cash: “the massacre claim was revealed as a case study in the misuse of historical evidence, beginning with a series of errors made by Robinson in 1841-42, and then perpetuated through a series of unreasonable conclusions and other errors made by historians and consultants.”

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In this article, I want to show how the two postmodernist tactics of language games and character assassination have been deployed in this debate.

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