Why Obama Won – part 1
As promised, my amateur assessment of the reasons behind the Obama victory. A clear and consistent message US presidential elections are about creating a narrative – who your candidate is and what...
View ArticleWhy does the Productivity Commission hate Sean Williams?
There’s a lot more in the Australian Productivity Commission’s report into parallel book imports than just their economic argument about cheaper books. There’s been some good analysis of what...
View ArticleWhy Q&A is bad for democracy
Q&A is one of the ABC’s flagship programs – generating a lot of kudos and occasionally some controversy for the national broadcaster. Since it started it has featured some of the country’s smartest...
View ArticleThanks Yuri
Many wonderful things came out of the USSR and the USA space-racing their way through almost half of the Twentieth Century – Sputnik, the Kennedy Speech, the Armstrong haiku, Apollo 13 – but cosmonaut...
View ArticleSome quick and dirty data on Julia Gillard’s “misogynist” speech
In this week’s back and forth about the PM’s speech and the mainstream media’s reporting of it, there hasn’t been much reference to available data. On one side, many in the press gallery reported the...
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