The last man in Europe: waiting to be read in a bookstore near you!
I've known Dennis Glover since we were both staffers in Parliament during the Hawke-Keating years (I was there in 1981, 83-4 and 1991-3 until just...
Today in history: Remembering the surprisingly tenable North Korean ICBM emergency
[caption id="attachment_30982" align="alignleft" width="600"] The massed battalions of The Oz were quickly brought up to the front[/caption] Many hundreds of hours ago now, our foreign...
You get what you pay for: MP’s edition
Does It Matter How and How Much Politicians are Paid? by Duha T. Altindag, Elif S. Filiz, Erdal Tekin - #23613 (LS POL) Abstract: An...
Blitz and bullet chess: Carlsen v Nakamura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuehyRf88ac If you've got a bit of an appreciation of chess, this is a lot of fun. I've been watching it on and off today giving myself...
Tennis before larger racquet heads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJubuKDN7Fk Noticing my checking of vids of Wimbledon, Youtube has been serving up far too many excerpts of tennis for my own good but I've...
Garbage in, garbage out and civil service effectiveness
The often good Institute for Government has added to the world's league ladders. As Woody Allen says in Annie Hall "All you people do in California...
The worst bit of old age is not being extended. It’s being delayed.
You've heard it a million times: in developed nations, populations are ageing. But what does that mean? At the extremes, it could mean either of...