Thank You, and Good Night (But I Hope Not Goodbye)
Or, Lapsing, then Lapsing into Solo-dom I think this will be my last post on Troppo. For some time, I've been thinking seriously about a...
Dog whistling
We haven't had a good mindless partisan political stoush on Troppo for ages now. A couple of days at least. So I thought I'd draw...
Michael Howard’s Globalized Campaign
Old fashioned jingoism and new fashioned marketing collide on the British campaign trail The candidate's grandfather was an illegal immigrant, his campaign strategist is Australian,...
Favourite Aussie authors?
A little while back, on one of my literary posts, on nominations for the 'dullest authors', a couple of people commented on how they found...
Results of great composers poll
Norm Geras has collated the results of the 'five favourite composers' poll he ran, and it won't surprise you to know that number one, at...
You say tomato, I say…
"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible." - George Orwell. In his 1946 essay, Politics and the English...
“Dinosaurs didn’t roam the earth forever”
One of my favourite bloggers, Phil Gomes over at Citystate has a very interesting reflection on the eclipse of op/ed columnists by bloggers - well...