A game theory
Lovatts Crosswords gave its profits to employees. What went wrong?
In light of recent events
Court cover-ups
Thugs, drink-driving teens, rapists, even the innocent, have appeared on the news for years, often peeking out from under a variety of props in an effort to hide their identity. Most recently I spotted someone walking to the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court with her face buried in a daggy zebra-print shawl. She’d been charged with attempting to murder her husband by poisoning his meal of meatballs, and clearly didn’t want her mug on the evening news. But while I discovered the shame is often the same, the effort that those accused put in to their pitiful subterfuge varies. Here, I rank a few recent efforts:
Oslo Davis is an illustrator and artist.
Ghosts in the war machine
Does the military attract violent misanthropists, or are they forged in murky theatres of war?
A dog’s breakfast
Notes on John Hughes’s plagiarism scandal
App trap: ‘Chloe’
‘Sex Education’ writer Alice Seabright’s new psychological thriller probing social media leads this month’s streaming highlights
‘The Picasso Century’ at the NGV
The NGV’s exhibition offers a fascinating history of the avant-garde across the Spanish artist’s lifetime
