Aussie Energiewende

Energiewende is used to describe German national strategy for transition to a climate-neutral energy system, including closure of nuclear plants…

Trumped Again

Think of the time we all wasted before the recent US elections reading poll experts and pundits all agreeing that…

Apparently Australians have a book buying frenzy in the period before Christmas, generating 70% of annual bookshop sales from October.…

Japan is a fascinating country, that we visited in July. Aussies are flocking to the ‘Thinking Man’s Bali’. The mix…

Sad news: my old mate the actor Donald Sutherland passed away on Thursday, aged 88. We haven’t been in touch…

The federal submarine corporation ASC is struggling to maintain the Australian navy’s six ageing (i.e. old) Collins class boats, originally…

Well, self congratulations are in order today, as KC celebrates our 15th year anniversary, which is apparently signified by crystal…

Loyal readers may have been feeling trepidatious today about an Anzac Day breakout from the KC newsroom, as the senior…

Wifedom (sub-tilted Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life) by Anna Funder. Orwell (The Authorised Biography) by Michael Shelden. I may have bitten…

I’d read reviews of Yanis Varoufakis’s recent book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism about the new kind of economic power exercised…