That rumbling sound may be a lot of backtracking from a whole class of folk who couldn’t conceive of people who think differently from themselves. There’s a lot of ashen faced commentators, politicians and journalists on tv this afternoon. Regardless of the outcome hopefully some humility across the board would be welcome.
Life In A Paper Boat is the title track of Kate Rusby’s new album. It’s a reflection on those who leave places of fear and take a dangerous journey to the hope of a new beginning.
A short article on a study about how cities/nations invariably massively underestimate the cost of hosting the games when they bid, why the budget blows out, how the infrastructure built to host the games provides a much lower value to the ongoing life of the community relative to other capital developments, and that some sort …
I’m feeling somewhat in agreement with the idea going around that Australia’s new five dollar note design is a scheme to make Australia become a republic: make a design so ugly that Queen Elizabeth 2 formally requests her portrait be taken off it and dissociates herself from any future usage. Judge for yourself.
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