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A.A.Gill Glitters

Adrian Anthony Gill was a provocateur-par-excelllence, and a hugely entertaining writer. His scathing style and waspish wit make me chuckle*.…

A.A.Gill, A.A.Gill is Further Away:helping with enquiries, Pour Me: A Life, The Angry Island:Hunting the English

‘The Beach’

Not the novel/film of the same name set in Thailand, but a brand new (premiered on the private plasma last…

The Beach, Warwick Thornton

Facts & Science

The U.S. Buffoon-in-Chief said last Friday: “The facts are going to determine what I do”.  Such gross irony was apparently…

Adani, Anthony Fauci, carbon pollution reduction, climate change, Dr Brendan Murphy, Scotty from Marketing, Trump

Pop-Up Socialism

Well, who would’ve thought that a Federal government of neo-liberal ‘dries’ would come up with $190 billion of spending to…

Big Government, Helicopter Money, Jobseeker, Milton Friedman, Milton Keynes, public goods, quantitative easing, Scotty from Marketing, snap back, Universal Basic Income

Republican Party Mea Culpa

Stuart Stevens is a Republican ‘consultant’, whose book about the Republican Party, It Was All a Lie, will be published…

coronavirus, Republican Party, Stuart Stevens, The Washington Post

Planetary Health & Pandemic

A KC team recently travelled in the south of the North Island, blissfully ignorant like the NZ government, of the…

COVID-19, New Zealand, pandemics, Planetary health

Minister for Toilet Paper

It seems that Scotty from Marketing has forgotten that he’s only Prime Minister of Australia and not Minister for Everything,…

Minister for Toilet Paper, Scotty from Marketing

War & Waste 

The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will blow a cool $500 million to expand again over the next nine years.…

Anzac Hall, Australian Institute of Architecture, Australian War Memorial, building carbon footprint, Denton Corker Marshal, philistinism

‘Sovietistan’

‘A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan’ The book by Erika Fatland was recently translated into English from…

Erika Fatland, Kazakhstan, Kygyzstan, Samarkand, Sovietistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Political Palsy

The Australian body politic (that includes us) is paralysed on ‘climate action’, thanks to a failed political class and our…

Barnaby Joyce, climate action, Don Watson, Elizabeth Farrelly, Scotty from Marketing

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