Liberty Scott

The death of Eric Hobsbawm at 95 has provoked outpourings of paeans to his legacy , glorifying his undoubted significant contribution to th...

Thomas Szasz passed away last weekend.  He was a prolific writer and critic of psychiatry.  He was vociferous in his view that so much of p...

I'm saddened today at the news I read this morning, having just come back from Rome, that Wim Verhoeven has passed away. Peter Cres...

So much can and is being said about Steve Jobs. Creator, businessman, salesman, innovator, capitalist. He turned computing, music, telecomm...

I didn't always agree with Dennis Dutton (such as his strong belief in compulsorily funded state radio), but beyond that he was a strong...

Michael Foot is best known for having led the British Labour Party to the greatest defeat in its history, in the 1983 election. After the 1...

The passing of Keith Floyd at quite a young age is sad in that he showed food, wine and life the way it should be - fun. One can say he li...

I had heard of Norman Borlaug only a couple of times before, not enough of course, and so his passing should come with the sort of news cove...

Mary Jo Kopechne might have thought her death by drowning was "worth it", given the career of Ted Kennedy. So says Melissa Lafsky...

Yep, as Not PC puts it, there is nothing good to say about Ted Kennedy. Had he died sooner then more people would be alive today. He w...

Walter Cronkite was the first real TV newsreading personality, reading CBS news from 1962 to 1981. His passing brings memories of the sort ...

Perhaps the most exposure anyone in NZ has had to Sir Clement Freud was with the BBC radio gameshow “Just a Minute” which National Radio fre...

If most are asked who was South Africa's greatest politican, you'll hear Nelson Mandela. After all he spent much of his life in pri...