Nicholas Gruen
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Suicide or something more suspicious?
The strange case of the sagging centre-left.
Yanis Varoufakis weighs in on the death of the centre-left. Two things stand out for me: his account of power shifting from industry to finance, and his description of the two-facedness of p...
Accountability from above and below
(Reposted from a now paywalled 2019 article at The Mandarin.)
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool” – Richard Feynman
In traditional organisations — and in the public sector — it s...
Political fundamentalism: what is it? And what is it good for?
Superannuation as the ALP’s Maginot Line
In this brief chat with Leon Gettler, I explain why I think Australia’s superannuation system is a political Maginot line, just waiting to be exploited. It is motivated more by empire-building –...
Italian Film Festival
2026 ST ALi Italian Film Festival viewing guide
This guide conforms to the standard prompt I give my AI for film festivals guides.
Melbourne 18 September to 15 October 2026
A ranked critical guide to all 33 films in the printe...
Hobbes on spin and bullshit
What Hobbes understood about spin and bullshit
Much of what is now said about public discourse — that manipulation and spin prevail over truth and candour, that pleasing abstractions displace description, and that profile confers standing...
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Alt-centre. Former teacher, cartoonist, policy economist trying to think of better ways of fitting the world together.
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