Gideon Haigh
The Nation Reviewed
Incentivising
Gideon Haigh
An age-old conjugation of democracy runs something like this: I am guided by the will of the people; you are a slave of public opinion; he...
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The Pursuit of Usable Beauty: Damien Wright & His Table
Gideon Haigh
Wright is speaking in his workshop, in Melbourne's inner north, and proving difficult to interview. Not because he is inarticulate - on the...
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Vanity Fare: Michael Wolff’s 'The Man Who Owns the News'
Gideon Haigh
In the mid 1960s, Fred Friendly, friend of and producer to the legendary newsman Ed Murrow, visited his boss at CBS, the no-less legendary...
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The Comeback Kid: Eddie Perfect’s 'Shane Warne: The Musical'
Gideon Haigh
Consider these three vignettes from the storied life of Shane Warne, involving something that happened, then something that didn't, then...
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Feeling Lucky: What Drives Economic Optimism?
Gideon Haigh
Any serious stock-market turbulence invites images of flappers, bathtub gin and plummeting stockbrokers: that is, of the Wall Street Crash...
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The Nation Reviewed
Ursa Major
Gideon Haigh
This year marks the centenary of an early classic of American finance: Fifty Years on Wall Street, by Henry Clews, a self-made speculative...
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La Travesty: Opera Australia’s Troubles
Gideon Haigh
When Martin retired in January, after a 45-year career, it was with all passion spent. The voice of Wagner's Hans Sachs and Wotan was as...
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Totally Wired: Wire’s ‘Object 47’
Gideon Haigh
Live at the Roxy London WC2 (Jan-Apr 77), one of punk's indispensable artefacts, begins much as you'd expect, with three tracks of phlegm-...
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Sir Donald Bradman at 100: The Serious Australian
Gideon Haigh
Still the most compelling aspect of the legend is The Average. One hundred is not the maximum possible arithmetic mean score in cricket,...
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‘Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith’ by Mark E Smith (with Austin Collings)
Gideon Haigh
Mancunian Mark E Smith is the founder of The Fall, after 27 studio albums the most durable and protean of all bands to emerge from that...
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