Richard Glover
- Opinion
- Recycling
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.
- Richard Glover
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- Retail
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
- Opinion
- Primary school
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
- Richard Glover
- Opinion
- The Sydney Morning Herald
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
- Opinion
- Dinner party
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
- Opinion
- Ageing
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
Minns should follow other states and cut public transport fares
Free or cut-price trains and buses in NSW makes sense in the midst of a deepening fuel crisis.
- Opinion
- Money psychology
Interest-free iceblocks: How a five-year-old beat the big banks
My grandson Pip has discovered a high-yield investment strategy involving the school canteen.
- Richard Glover
- Opinion
- Sleep
Is this the secret to getting a good night’s sleep?
I found it in an 18th-century literary classic, like all great ideas.
- Richard Glover
- Opinion
- Illness
Why do we notice our bodies only when they break?
We forget, most of the time, to give our bodies the thanks they deserve.
- Richard Glover