Friday, March 28, 2025

What is the True Value of Work?

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I wrote the following piece after a speech given by Australia's Reserve Bank deputy governor that unemployment needed to rise in order ...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Weights and Measures, by Joseph Roth

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A frustrated minor official finds he is not as perfect as he thought he was ​ In the District of Zlotogrod, during the last years of the Aus...

Confessions of a Sociopath, by M.E. Thomas

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A clinically diagnosed sociopath tells her story ​ Confessions of a Sociopath  by M.E. Thomas (a pseudonym, as you can imagine), was first p...

The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I, by Steven Veerapen

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A new biography of King James VI and I.  King James VI and I (1566 - 1625) is perhaps best known as the successor to Queen Elizabeth.  His m...

Mean Streak: A Moral Vacuum, a Dodgy Debt Generator and a Multi-billion Dollar Government Shake Down, by Rick Morton

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How an illegal government program slowly unravelled. ​ Robodebt was a harebrained scheme hatched by a group of public servants hoping to mak...

Puggleton Park, by Deanna Kizis

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Peril for Penelope the Pug when she gets lost in Puggleton Park. Can she find her way home again? “It’s a truth everyone knows that all dogs...
Friday, March 7, 2025

The Most, by Jessica Anthony

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A woman sinks into a pool on a warm Autumn day, and refuses to get out. It’s an unseasonably warm day in November, 1957. Kathleen Beckett, w...