The Humbug Martyrdom of Andrew Bolt
A Peculiarly Australian Cause Celebre In one of the less nebulous sections of the Liberals' curiously fisk-resistant manifestoi, you'll find this special promise for Andrew...
What kind of bias is Rebecca Weisser worried about?
In Saturday's Australian, Rebecca Weisser argues that the ABC is biased. To fix the problem she suggests creating "a commission of inquiry to rework the...
Keynes on Marshall on women
On reading Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit which I'm enjoying, I have been re-reading Keynes' fine essay on Marshall. One real mystery - at least for...
Adam Goodes: Welcome to the Nicky Winmar “here I stand” hall of fame
VIDEO: Goodes gutted by girl’s name-calling In the absence of Jacques intervention, Wordpress's coding interferes with my ability to 'embed' this video on Troppo but...
Old habits die hard
Once again we're arranging ourselves into our usual trenches. Are you a free trader or a protectionist? And so we get the usual rehearsal of lessons...
Ideas that may or may not matter: Population, the home market effect and manufacturing
This is sort of in the vein of the intermittent series (1, 2), its adopted sibling and an older post on "hollowing out". But it's...
Tax games in Europe
As I said a few months ago, tax evasion is the big cliff in terms of the future of the EU project. It was thus...