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Russian communities are facing a surge in crimes from both returning veterans and criminals using the war to get out of jail. But in Vladimir Putin’s new Russia, soldiers are the new heroes, and tough wartime censorship laws leave little room to criticize them.

On the careless people on.ft.com/4i7SYUW

Me doing research, interviews, gossiping: this is so much fun it can’t be a real job. Me writing, editing, getting things down: this job is torture

One of the world’s most anti-woke crusaders keeps bringing his toddler into work and honestly it’s very confusing

The Murdoch-owned Adelaide Advertiser is finally turning on its former hero Sanjeev Gupta, only a good half decade after the FT and others started shining a light on his shenanigans

WSJ on “the dumbest trade war in history”: “Mr Trump can’t repeal the laws of economics any more than Joe Biden could on inflation.” www.theaustralian.com.au/business/the...

Both sides of politics want us to believe that redirecting prosperity to a preferred sector somehow represents a growth strategy www.afr.com/policy/econo...

“the restoration of individual responsibility and freedom” : how some of Australia’s leading tech founders see Trumpism www.afr.com/technology/s...

"In the aftermath of disaster, healthy communities ask themselves, 'What did we do wrong?' Unhealthy ones ask, 'Who did this to us?' Nations that externalize their internal issues lose the ability to address them."

There are many brave, exceptional people in this world and I’m trying to hold their images and words in my mind to drown out the airtime devoted to the bullies and the bloviators

New The coming battle between social media and the state Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength By me, in todays @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/917c...

This from @dkthomp.bsky.social is a hell of a read: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Facts to make you feel old: Supreme by Robbie Williams bangs as hard as ever but is 25 years old this year

These are some incredible sentences. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Merry Christmas to me …

It's interesting how pubs are making nearly as much as clubs out of poker machines while getting far less attention. There's only one reason while some random suburban pub is open to 6am on a Tuesday... www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Exclusive: Inside the ‘unending chaos’ at Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue www.afr.com/companies/en...

No more rules. My @smh cartoon.