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Some collected observations on the Middle East crisis.

Chris Lloyd
July 1, 2025
I posted something similar on Facebook a few days back, and thought I might get some useful feedback here. Iran is criticised for violating their...
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Collective governance or tyranny? A chat about our own Magna Carta moment

Nicholas Gruen
May 30, 2025
I try to replicate my more substantial posts on Substack here, but forgot this from a few weeks ago. So I'm now making amends. When...
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Copilot stopped talking to me

Chris Lloyd
November 14, 2024December 16, 2024
I was reading some arguments by Bettina Arndt recently about women dominating the legal profession, especially in the Family Law sphere, so I thought I...
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Nuclear power – nirvana or nonsense?

Ken Parish
October 8, 2024October 24, 2024
The federal Coalition's adoption of a policy involving government-owned construction of 7 nuclear power plants around Australia has raised an argument that most people thought...
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Returning to blogging at Troppo

Ken Parish
October 8, 2024October 29, 2024
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...
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Sotto Voce: The case for an informal vote

Chris Lloyd
October 3, 2023
I find it hard to understand how passionate some folks are about voting Yes or voting No. Not because I do not understand passion, but...
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The academy and partners try wellbeing frameworks

Nicholas Gruen
September 26, 2023September 28, 2023
I discover that I don't seem to have cross-posted this old essay previously published in the Mandarin, and since this is my place of record...

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