The ugly side of money and power in America – all the way back to Andrew Hamilton
The Boston Review is a good thing. I found this article on Alexander Hamilton, which is a serious debunking job on the hagiographies of Alexander...
Shopping malls: my family’s part in the world’s civic downfall
The architect Victor Gruen 'invented' the shopping mall. He was the first person to come up with and execute the idea of a hermetically sealed...
Who do you want answering the phone in the White House at 3.00 am: What’s a ‘Republican talking point’?
Paul Krugman's theory is that the Bush administration and the Replublican Party are so bad, so partisan, that the Democrats should be unafraid of a...
Journalistic ethics
The SMH which published an op ed of mine has just sent me their editorial ethics policy. I have no trouble agreeing to it. But...
Psst . . . wanna buy time with the Minister?
From yesterday's Fin Many Australians are mesmerised by an inquiry into Wollongong City Council and some of its councillors and staff and developers. NSWs Independent...
Missing Link Daily
A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian...
More again on unemployment
In recent months, in newspaper articles and letters and in Club Troppo positings, I have been hammering the theme that (a) the short term inflation...