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Here’s The News: Everyone’s A Critic

Friday, 4 May 2012 - 11:22am General Content Item: Middle Column "Politicians in Britain this week got to do what MPs in Australia have only dreamed of for years: turn ...

PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-04 11:31 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A White Cube in a Black Box

Britain’s Edwardian tearoom and Hungary’s ethnic fantasy, and talks for a moment about the dignified ...

The Monthly - Deyan Sudjic - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

What Gina Wants

the Pilbara’s iron ore and, in a nod to the wonders of uranium, the Montebello Islands, the site of Britain’s ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A Cad and a Gentleman

nineteenth-century Britain, with the rural poor feeling the encroaching forces of modernisation. Freida Pinto ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2012-05-03 12:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

I'd like 11 and a half tons of resin please

I'd like 11 and a half tons of resin please " What's it like to make giant monuments for Rachel Whiteread? Or to paint spots for Damien Hirst? The people behind some of Britain's best known art share their highs - and lows." ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-03 15:08 - 0 comments

How the Daily Mail conquered England

How the Daily Mail conquered England " The  Mail  is the most powerful newspaper in Great Britain. A middle-market tabloid, with a daily readership of four and a half million, it reaches four times as many people as the  Guardian." ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-27 14:13 - 0 comments

The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia

of the Industrial Revolution in Britain and Europe. One of our earliest leaders, Andrew Fisher, literally worked ... in Britain that led to violent riots in London last year. The Archbishop of Canterbury observed many of those ... Andrew Forrest, Britain, Capitalism, Climate Change, Clive Palmer, Gina Rinehart, Industrial relations, ...

The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments

Ice Works

sealers from Britain and the United States reached the waters off Cape Horn and found the islands brimming ...

The Monthly - David Day - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Welcome to Coogan town

Welcome to Coogan town "Steve Coogan is, by some distance, the most gifted comic performer to have come out of Britain in the last 20 years. But, somehow, he hasn't connected in the U.S. The good news is that Coogan may be poised, ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-20 14:28 - 0 comments

Children’s Lib

the heads of the drowned. * The Conflict has become a bestseller in France. Reviews in Britain ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

The myths of Britain's imperial past

The myths of Britain's imperial past "The subject peoples of empire did not go quietly into history's goodnight. Underneath the veneer ... (Britain, England, History, Guardian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-20 14:08 - 0 comments

Long in the Tooth

that is the Royal Gallery. This is the room used for Britain’s most important state occasions, the place where ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-02-07 15:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The euro in a shrinking zone

The euro in a shrinking zone " The recent European Union summit was a disaster. Both Britain and Germany played the wrong game: British Prime Minister David Cameron isolated Britain from Europe, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-16 14:46 - 0 comments

The Elephant in the Room

convert. When Britain announced its decision to withdraw its forces east of Suez, it seemed only ... Australia policy, but it still chose to support Britain’s weapons sales to the apartheid regime in South ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In the Picture

abuses. Since 1948, when Burma won its independence from Britain, it has struggled to contain ethnic ...

The Monthly - Sebastian Strangio - 2012-02-07 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The end of old Europe

the European Union is divided and Great Britain has been sidelined, possibly for the long term." ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-13 14:26 - 0 comments

A. (Len) Puglisi

enough! Let’s give space to cutting-edge economists, for example, America’s Herman Daly and Britain’s Tim ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Politics of News

into play. Murdoch in America is implacably Republican. But in Britain and Australia where party ... to write him off. In post-Hackgate Britain, at least Murdoch’s power to get his way by bullying ... (politics news, politics news) (February 2012, Arts & Letters, Britain, David McKnight, News Corp, ...

The Monthly - David Marr - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In Athens

In Athens "Athens is drifting back to how it was in the 1950s and 1960s, Stasinopoulou thinks. Old support mechanisms are being activated in a way unimaginable in Britain or Germany. 'My father's going to send me oil and olives ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-24 14:27 - 0 comments

Left Behind: Why the Right Keeps Winning

Merrill Lynch investment banker. The hardest sell must be Britain’s Labour Party, which was in power ... of Britain’s plight offered by any Labour leader since 1945”. The other factor is that the Coalition ...

The Monthly - Peter Hartcher - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Life Not Lived

and dramatists in the English language. Ian Donaldson has taught Renaissance literature at Britain’s most august ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

What We Learned in Copenhagen

to strengthen the deal, not weaken it. Others blamed China. Ed Miliband, then Britain’s climate secretary, ...

The Monthly - Andrew Charlton - 2011-11-28 09:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Why is UK consumption falling?

(Britain, Consumer behaviour, Consumerism, ENVIRONMENT, Guardian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-02 13:06 - 0 comments

Paul Keating: I told the Queen we did not need her anymore

(Australian Politics, Britain, Paul Keating, Republican Movement, The Australian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-21 14:09 - 0 comments

The Book of Paul

Britain – nations we have variously looked up to, been terrorised by or relied upon – would kill for what ... motive in Great Britain. Is Gillard’s carbon tax, which gives back to lower- and middle-income households ... Book-ending that period were the rise of Japan, which had replaced Great Britain as our top export market ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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