God it’s shite finding yourself on the same side as Bob Carr. The sinister little gollum is in the Oz today, whining about the PIR campaign he helped lose.
A director of Dymocks and the ‘face’ of their front-group the Coalition for Cheaper Books’, Carr lost to a motley bunch of basketweavers and it shits [...]
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Bob Carr PIR galah
November 14, 2009 – 11:56 am
Done in our name
November 14, 2009 – 7:17 am
There’s nothing special about war damage in the Balkans, but most of it is what the locals have done to one another over the years. This isn’t:
It’s in Belgrade, which was bombed by NATO in 1999, during Kosovo’s war of independence. Most of it’s been repaired or rebuilt, but there’s a few things like this [...]
Why do good boys do bad things?
November 12, 2009 – 9:34 am
Why do ordinarily good people do bad things? One of the big questions that underlie all the debates on university colleges, male sports teams and other forms of hooliganism, is why do some groupings encourage thuggery? Often this as a male thing, because aspects of sexual aggression in masculinity are too often still seen as [...]
Don’t Minchin the phwarrr it’s hot — the Libs’ rightwing Lysenkoism
November 11, 2009 – 6:18 pm
Not least among the joys of Four Corners gobsmacking report on the climate change lunacy among the Libs, was Nick Minchin’s remark that climate change was just another stage in the anti-industrial campaigns of the Left ….first communism now the Green movement.
The esteemed Keane has pointed out the way in which the Right has [...]
The ETS Chainsaw Massacre*
November 10, 2009 – 1:28 pm
For a former fully paid-up member of the Greenhouse Mafia, Ian “Chainsaw” Macfarlane has come a damn long way. To see him admitting on 4 Corners last night that he had changed his views about the role of humans in climate change was semi-gobsmacking. Here was one of the principal figures in the Howard Government’s [...]
Bacevic bitch? Colebatch, natch.
November 10, 2009 – 1:03 pm
Hal GP Colebatch (as opposed to Hal ‘urologist’ Colebatch) has a piece in the Oz op-ed about the split in US conservatism. He’s particularly exercised by a mag called The American Conservative, home of the ‘paleo-conservatives’, founded by former Reagan communications director Pat Buchanan after the pro-war neocons drove the anti-war paleo-cons out of [...]
How the moral have fallen
November 9, 2009 – 7:05 am
I had a piece in Crikey on Thursday about the Lisbon treaty, which is all set to come into force, but I wouldn’t want to let the occasion pass without a comment on the actual concession that secured its final ratification.
Czech president Vaclav Klaus only agreed to sign the treaty after he was promised that [...]
“Ghettos of agreement”???
November 6, 2009 – 8:27 pm
This is a quick, very simple follow-up to my presentation at the Media140 conference, where I was on a panel on political journalism with Annabel Crabb, Chris Uhlmann, Caroline Overington and John Kerrison.
Another great term coined at #Media140 by Crikey’s Bernard Keane: “Communities of interest, or ghettos of agreement?” tweeted @matthewsinclair yesterday. My immediate reaction [...]
Devine’s totalitarianally nutsy take on bureaucracy
November 5, 2009 – 6:03 pm
Good God, when you’re Miranda Devine you don’t want to begin an op-ed piece with an image of a plane on autopilot. But that’s what she did, to talk about bureaucracy. Bureaucratisation is just like a hi-tech pilot’s cabin, she twittered.
It obviously bloody isn’t, it’s the opposite.
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