I signed off on my review of The Mushroom Tapes before the book got the gold plate publicity treatment over the weekend. When I write that it’s hard to differentiate this book from the torrents of chatter about the case, it’s not a positive evaluation. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Reviewed Sam Tanenhaus's William F. Buckley bio. insidestory.org.au/the-entertai...

Where to even begin with this.

After this anniversary, can boomers please agree to never talk about the Dismissal again?

If you buy the Garner/Hooper/Krasnostein transcript you deserve a custodial sentence. Sorry, no exceptions.

Man, this whole project is so ghoulish. I'd walk barefoot over hot coals before I'd read this.

Millions of us begging for this to be brought out from behind the paywall.

Imagine being taught American politics by a guy (Timothy Lynch) who says all this with a straight face.

I reviewed the new, second volume of David Day’s biography of Bob Hawke, for ABR: www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

RIP Ed Moloney. www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...

Remarkable piece. “Never in history has so much of the Jewish leadership been stained with this much guilt – a guilt that can never be washed out.”

Sara Roy on the empty promise of “day after” plans in Gaza

The Productivity Commission should be eternally discredited for promoting this criminal idea. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Joyride gone wrong.

Imagine trumpeting this as a good thing.

The Australian’s much-hyped new Culture liftout has one (1) book review. Embarrassing.

Opinion | The media would have you believe Barnaby Joyce is a sort of maverick political genius. In fact his ego means he’s politically poison to his own side, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

The biggest shock about this Barnaby Joyce news is that he’s only 58. Looks at least mid-70s. I guess that’s what a mostly booze diet will do.

Brigid thinking Orwell wrote about ‘Tiny Tiny Train World’ was pre-AI.

These academics defend white nationalism. Their college says that’s ‘freedom of speech’. On Stephen McInerney and Stephen Chavura. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Centrist Democrats see Mamdani first and foremost as a gifted content creator, a kind of brand. They’re missing the point, and as @maxkiefel.bsky.social argues, copping his strategy won’t bring the party back to relevance.

A reporter from the Australian is one of the group of signatories to the Pentagon's new press corps rules which prompted a universal walk-out from credible news outlets.

Serious newspaper.

New: Censorship by any other name. The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it. nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

My boldest auspol prediction is that a grand coalition is coming in the next few election cycles. Neither major party will be able to form a majority so they’ll team up to protect their donors, locking out pesky minor parties and independents. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Um, didn’t you literally write the book on Australian politics in the 80s? This is very clearly what also happened to the Liberals then.

Royal children’s hospital Melbourne

who's gonna tell him

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

National Press Club www.afopa.com.au/blog/2025/10...

Modelos Never Tasted So Good: ‘One Battle After Another’ is a Perfect Movie open.substack.com/pub/vinceman...

Ladies and gentlemen, one of your Boyer lecturers for 2025. Farcical.

'A former deputy head of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, McInerney has also argued the White Australia Policy did not go far enough and that white Australians may need to live in separate neighbourhoods as a form of “tactical retreat”.' www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The Australian right will never give up on the idea that Tony is very smart.

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Does my head in that people who claim to care about climate change have no qualms about using AI for tasks they're perfectly capable of doing themselves. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Grateful to the editors of @nplusonemag.com for the clarity and force of this editorial. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Happy AFR power list day to all who celebrate sycophantic bullshit journalism.

Just a humble Harvard law professor who doesn't really know anything about Kissinger's career.

A non-fungible shared office space. How incredibly embarrassing.

Not a single one of them prepared to be named. Total cowards, both the MPs and the Guardian.

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

Never has a ‘sut da fuk up’ response been more justified.

Portishead - ‘Roads’ 2025 – Together For Palestine holy fuck (free Palestine)

Such a great piece. “In its doddering senescence, the capitalist war machine is no less murderous than fascism was—witness the millions of Muslims killed by the United States and Israel since 2001—but it has considerably lower production values.”

RIP John Martinkus. 'Martinkus made his name reporting on conflict. He was the first and last journalist covering East Timor’s brutal struggle for independence, and went on to cover Iraq, Afghanistan, Aceh, Burma and West Papua. He died on Sunday in Melbourne, aged 56.' archive.md/pFXkv

New: A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

Reposting this for no particular reason www.themonthly.com.au/may-2025/ess...

Australian media and politicians have taken a huge interest in an overseas figure the vast majority of their constituents would have never heard of prior to September 10, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.