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Richard Glover

Richard Glover

Richard Glover is a columnist.

There’s joy and redemption to be found at the local tip.

I went looking for a needle in a haystack, and I found so much more

There’s joy and redemption to be found at the local tip.

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The change rooms, the mirrors, the judgemental salesperson: it’s all a plot.

Confessions of a shopaphobic: Is there a greater hell than buying new clothes?

The change rooms, the mirrors, the judgmental salesperson: it’s all a plot.

  • Richard Glover
At Dogstronomy, the rules are simple: the larger the diner, the more you pay. Humans, take heed.

When it comes to dining, this new dog restaurant has the right idea

At Dogstronomy, the rules are simple: the larger the diner, the more you pay.

  • Richard Glover
Mums, you’ve earned your hand-drawn Mother’s Day cards.

What kind of mum are you? Take my Mother’s Day quiz and find out

Would you rather sleep with Jacob Elordi or sleep for more than two consecutive hours?

  • Richard Glover
The teenage eye roll? Already? He’s only five.

Slow down the school syllabus, it’s producing five-year-old nihilists

Some people say the public education system doesn’t teach children quickly enough, but I believe it teaches them too fast

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Richard Glover, then and now.

I’ve spent decades at the Herald but this story was my absolute peak

I lived through the death of the typewriter and the birth of the internet, yet nothing beat the time I used Vegemite to outsmart the British Empire.

  • Richard Glover
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James Valentine - best wishes and get well soon

Witty and warm, James Valentine lifted the spirits of a city

James Valentine had a crazy-brave attitude to radio that left his fellow presenters in awe and his audience devoted.

  • Richard Glover
Twelve-year-old Richard Glover with his Elvis collection.

I was 12 years old again and sobbing at the end of this film

The years between childhood and adulthood are difficult. You’re trying to locate your own identity. Life at home, for some people, is full of misery.

  • Richard Glover
Dominic West had some dining lessons to learn when he played Prince Charles in The Crown.

From Ozempic to surprise vegans: Your 2026 dinner party survival guide

Forget the soup spoon. In 2026, the real etiquette is surviving internet “facts”, and the dreaded 20-minute phone slideshow.

  • Richard Glover
Who knew that being hopeless at guitar would be beneficial in old age?

My lifetime of crushing failure? Turns out it’s an anti-dementia superpower

Who knew that being hopeless at guitar would be so beneficial in old age?

  • Richard Glover