I’m re-reading The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes and thinking about the great irony that King George III punished thieves by sending them out to Australia while simultaneously…
Arctic sea ice shrinks to smallest extent ever recorded. Scientists think within 20 years there may be no ice left at all at certain times of the year.…
CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, in an on-the-record speech to the Council of Foreign Relations that is publicly available online, has now said that it is clear that…
I don’t know who created this, but I first saw it on this Facebook page. I’m not sure the top of the tree should be the banksters by themselves, as there…
If you haven’t watched THE WIRE yet – what are you waiting for? After all, it’s ten years old this year and it has been roundly acclaimed as…
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I’m writing a section of my latest book about the World Bank and discovered this interview with political scientist Susan George:
Neomad is a new iPad comic created by and featuring a group of energetic, talented and brilliant indigenous kids from Roebourne in Western Australia. The guy who has…
We understand and accept this fact in sport. I tell my kids all the time “every member of the team is important”. The same is true in socio-economics.…