Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy
Donald Trump is still trying to slash his nation's trade deficit. Australians may recognise this task: we tackled it in the late 1980s, failed, and...
Is the cultural revolution on gender, race and sexual orientation at risk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW_IPF2GSpw As part of a new policy, I'm going to post stuff I've published on my substack here where it's substantial enough, or where I...
Vale David Tiley
David Tiley was one of the early generation of bloggers in Australia, starting in 2003, approximately the same time as I started. I first met...
Returning to blogging at Troppo
As longstanding readers will know, I was one of the founders of Troppo along with Nicholas Gruen and several others including Mark Bahnisch and Don...
Escape from planet sensible: Stunning listening
Adolf never had much time for planet sensible. Here he is after the Reichstag fire with fellow traveller Sefton Delmer who was Berlin correspondent for...
The world of bullshit we’ve built: Reflections on a scene from Utopia
https://youtube.com/shorts/_XXLgZ8rYew?si=i8EWpLRcHJ3-rpjF I recently took my son to the stage play of Yes, Prime Minister. … The decades have made a huge difference in the sensibility of...
Democracy: doing it for ourselves
https://youtu.be/6uPex480hRU Above is the video of a presentation I made at NESTA in London on 15th November with discussants Claire Mellior and Martin Wolf. I...