Articles by Dr James Moylan

About Dr James Moylan

Dr James Moylan – LLB (Hon), BA (Culture), Dr of Phil (Law, SCU) – lives in Lismore, NSW. Dr JiMM has variously been a skid row alcoholic (age 13-27), a Journalist, a Sugar Train Driver, and a researcher on the heritage age god and mineral fields in central Queensland. He has also run a Public Relations firm (Radio Mango Productions, Mackay), has been admitted to the roll of legal practitioners as a solicitor (Qld, 2014), was the President of (the short lived) independent Student Union at Southern Cross University (LEXUS – 2011/2), and is one of the co-founders of the HEMP Party in Australia (along with Micheal Balderstone). Dr JiMM has been happily married to the same gorgeous lady (Sharon) for more than three decades and has one adult daughter (Tayla).

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The irresistible cultural imperative: how tourism keeps reinventing society

7 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 0

Tourism and civilisation are intimately linked. But tourism is much more robust. Warfare, drought, famine, earthquake, and tsunami are just minor inconveniences. The Russian, Mongol, and Qing dynasties, like the Persian, Roman, English, and American […]

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The greedy ape: why catastrophe is inevitable

5 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 1

Part 1: The chimpanzee sex conundrum When you banish the rather odd concept of humankind as a golden twig protruding from the very top of the tree of life, and instead start comparing and contrasting […]

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Living the dream – the ‘Lumpenproletariat’

3 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 4

The One Nation ‘Policy Development’ officer was suffering through yet another minor existential crisis. At one o’clock in the morning, seated at his desk, at home, with the rest of the world securely locked outside, […]

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The good book is not good medicine

2 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 12

I was a very crook 16-year-old kid, lying in a cot in the detox ward of the Bridge Centre in Sydney, when a Captain of the Salvation army pulled a chair up to my bed […]

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George Orwell was an optimist

25 July 2025 Dr James Moylan 2

As a species, we have come a long way. It all started with a stone age. Then after a bronze, iron, industrial and plastic period, we stumbled into an information age. All of which illustrates […]

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Welcoming our esteemed visitors from Planet X

20 April 2025 Dr James Moylan 1

(A response to: Strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system, University of Cambridge) About one hundred and forty-seven light years south of us, circling a huge old red dwarf star, is a […]

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On the Armidale Road

19 April 2025 Dr James Moylan 4

I’d begun the voyage at three-thirty the prior night. After driving four hundred kilometres to Armidale, signing a lease, and picking up a moving van, I’d driven it back to Lismore. All before piling my […]

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Worrying about everything, all the time, for fun and profit

29 March 2025 Dr James Moylan 6

For a satirist, Trump is a diamond encrusted 100% solid gold shitter. He is an overblown cartoon caricature of a populist leader. The sort of clownish character that might have been dreamt up in a […]

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Random signals from planet Trump

25 March 2025 Dr James Moylan 9

Some revelations are plain discouraging. My back of the envelope calculations indicate that I am far more likely to die in a plane accident than I am to win lotto. Perhaps if I play lotto […]

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“Waiter! There’s a Trump in my soup!”

21 March 2025 Dr James Moylan 10

Once upon a time our unis were full of middle class poseurs wearing Che Guevara tee-shirts who were all airily declaring that ‘everything is political, man.’ Much has changed, today our unis are full of […]

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Postcards from the uncivil war

19 March 2025 Dr James Moylan 3

You may have thought that the idea of kidnapping people off the street, flinging them into a dungeon, then ‘disappearing’ them, was entirely old hat. So, arguing about this sort of thing probably declined sometime […]

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Where is the gonzo?

17 March 2025 Dr James Moylan 12

The modern world sucks. You suck. Every one of my audience members is to blame. So fuck you all. Everybody is a f*n journalist and nobody can write for shit. Consequently, we have all become […]

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I can’t complain: I am not a property owner, or a landlord

12 March 2025 Dr James Moylan 3

Bits of the world are really good. I can see a really good bit right now, even as I type. In the lane behind my house magpies are fighting over a scrap of bread and […]

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You are strongly advised to STOCK UP ON TRUMP MERCH NOW!

25 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 7

Dear Consumer, We would like to make you an offer. You will not want to reject this offer. You have received this piece of correspondence because the US federal government loves you deeply and dearly […]

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The art of living in interesting times

22 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 1

Sometimes I can’t keep up. The treadmill feels like it is moving too fast. At heart I am a bleeding-heart namby-pamby liberal pussy. Consequently, I find it virtually impossible to not overly worry about matters […]

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