Queen’s Birthday Honours List delivers The Goodies
It is my humble honour and privilege to inform LP readers that today, at long last, the other two-thirds of The Goodies — Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden — got their OBEs (Bill Oddie got his in 2003).
Solar PV coming of age?
You can take your pick from a few posts on solar PV lately. John Quiggin has one. He borrowed from one by Stephen Lacey at Grist, cross-posted at Climate progress. I think I’ll start with Giles Parkinson at Climate Spectator. [...]
Spotlight the Spin
Ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing! What line do they want us to buy? What are the talking points being trotted out this week?
Lazy Sunday
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
The labour force- 1978-2011
It seems like the release of monthly employment data passed almost without comment yesterday. The lack of interest – if you’ll pardon the pun, it seemed the major focus of commentary was the data’s likely effect on the deliberations of [...]
Climate clippings 30
East Antarctic ice sheet sits on rivers and lakes The Science Show reported on a new survey of East Antarctica published in nature. probably something like the Northern Territory area was actually below 500 metres below sea level, and if [...]
Violence, democracy and the mass media
It can hardly be denied that violence has a peculiarly vicarious allure in the modern mass media environment, regardless of whether we are talking ratings, book sales, ticket sales, clicks, or good old-fashioned circulation. Think James Patterson, the “world’s best-selling [...]
Quick link: Gittins on poverty and social exclusion
Ross Gittins in this recent column starts and ends with the hook of whingers on $150,000 a year. The substantive theme is to address the concepts of poverty, social disadvantage and social exclusion. He looks at this through the work [...]
Quickhit: the risks and rewards of privatising our security
The prisoners get all the risks (including death during transport to remand for a misdemeanour), the corporations get all the rewards. The taxpayer turns an unseeing eye.
NBN is becoming unstoppable
Tony Abbott has given Malcolm Turnbull as lawyer/merchant banker and reputedly the smartest person in parliament the task of destroying the NBN, if not now certainly when they gain access to the Treasury benches. Turnbull is certainly not dumb, and [...]
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