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Films and TV History

Breaking free of the boilerplate: Testament of Youth – now in a cinema near you

Nicholas Gruen
April 29, 2015January 28, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqoXrjQQ9x8 This is a re-post of a post I did on Testament of Youth last December when the lead actress and I sat down to watch it for...
Chess Political theory

Some stimulating debate on the sensitive subject of gender differences in specific cognitive abilities

Nicholas Gruen
April 26, 2015April 27, 2015
https://youtu.be/n3AeM3Q9mU4 On a difficult subject, let's throw the conversation over to some people who know nothing about it, but who have flawless makeup on and...
Economics and public policy Philosophy Political theory

Neoclassical economics: what is it good for?

Nicholas Gruen
April 25, 2015April 27, 2015
I sent the passage below to my friend Alex Coram noting "I like this post from Brad Delong - though you may not". Alex, you...
Bargains

Bored with reinvention of the superficial kind?

Nicholas Gruen
April 24, 2015May 20, 2018
https://youtu.be/sXlmF3eI9R0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcEfKovFzf0 The earlier ad was removed from YouTube. It was even schlockier than the second one I've put up here, but until I can find the other...
Cultural Critique History Philosophy Political theory

A film and a couple of poems in the lead-up to Anzac Day

Nicholas Gruen
April 22, 2015April 25, 2018
https://youtu.be/e3e2nNNJ7-4 Regular readers will know of my enthusiasm for the recent movie adaptation of Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth about the disaster that was WWI...
Law Politics - Northern Territory

Elferink ups the ante, Delia folds

Ken Parish
April 19, 2015April 19, 2015
Delia Lawrie's announcement today that she was resigning as NT Labor Opposition Leader isn't really surprising in light of yesterday's news that Attorney-General John Elferink...
Bargains Cultural Critique Humour

Lest we forget that Woolworths are the fresh food people: Troppo competition

Nicholas Gruen
April 14, 2015
Woolies and its marketers plumb the depths of vileness. Apparently they've taken it down with a delicious non-apology. It "regretted" it had caused offence. File...

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