Stay indoors, practise social-isolation and wear a mask when you go outside. This Notebook edition falls on the 21st anniversary of Tiananmen Square on June 4. Let’s hope Chinese mainlanders with a TV set watch the unfolding events in Minneapolis, Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia and elsewhere. Read independent (non-Murdoch) current affairs…
Stay indoors but stay informed. Check out alternative, non-Murdoch, current affairs. This week’s menu includes: Trump takes USA from hero to zero; Stop rorters from exploiting the pandemic; Two new dictionaries show how language is being Americanised; Debut of the word “sportswashing”; Didn’t Australia get gold for “sportswashing” at the Sydney Olympics?; Opus Dei enthusiast…
Stay indoors but stay informed. Check out this FREE current affairs menu: Politicians keep telling us lies; Euthanasia spooks our legislators; Books to the rescue; Music keeps us young; The Beatles revisited; Right-wingers never liked The Beatles; New research puts Yoga on the mat; More famous sayings flood in; The world is changing – so…
Stay in indoors but stay connected: Follow current affairs that’s important and professional, and it’s FREE: Baroness Scotland’s scramble to hold onto Commonwealth job; Britain’s Windrush crime; Baroness Scotland’s curious Commonwealth allies; Sharan Burrow, ex-ACTU boss, makes friends in Saudi Arabia, the Arab Gulf’s bloodhouse; When famous sayings were really famous; List of great sayings. “Baroness…
Tributes to some of my dearest friends who I won’t being seeing ever again. But this is not a tear-grabbing set of obituaries, rather a celebration of memorable lunches with journalist Frank Crook, actor Arthur Dignam, trade union leader Jack Mundey and judge David Levine. And it ends with a piece on rock’n’roll legend Little…
Keep up social-isolation but stay abreast of current affairs: the Notebook is FREE and full of independent information. Nick Whitlam reviews Malcolm Turnbull; Why politicians should write more memoirs; Publishers are making big bucks from big names; Helen Keller, blind and deaf, praised books; Headlines the media would rather forget; Trump tells whopping lies; Bernie…
Stay informed while staying indoors; alternative current affairs which is FREE of charge: How airlines seduce politicians; Big payola from Virgin Australia and Qantas; Billionaire Richard Branson, taxation and Panama; Crazy world of corporate lingo; AN Wilson unloads on Fleet Street; London Guardian unhinged; Noam Chomsky scores again; Are we “all in this together?” No, we aren’t…
Exclusive menu of independent reporting: Who is Lyle Shelton? US multi-millionaires get cash from Washington stimulus package; Deep South pastor asks for stimulus cheques; Henry Kissinger’s plan to “save” capitalism; The day Laurie Brereton shocked the ACTU Congress; Travel PR puffs aren’t journalism; PLUS Quote of the Week and Pseuds of the Week Meet the…
A menu of current affairs and commentary: What happened to film lighting? Ruby Princess scandal revisited; Quality bookshops losing out; Julian Assange’s big surprise; Time to replace dying capitalism?; Edward Snowden emerges from isolation; Maurie O’Sullivan said it first; The Australian’s headline blunders; Uncensored views of young Donald. Movies in the dark One bonus arising from…
This week: the banks, the big corporations and the coronavirus All in this together? Bankers, CEOs and company directors emerged from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) better off than before it. This was true in the US, the UK and Australia. They walked away unscathed from the financial catastrophe which they had created but…
