This week was the beginning of the next stage in my new life, la vita nuova as an independent author. After a ritual week on the liminal beauty of the Bay of Lorne in South-Eastern Australia, I transformed from a government official, wounded and now retired, to become an independent author.
Episode 63 The Lessons of History – The Burning Archive podcast explores how the past is not dead,…
The escapades of the American Imperial War Faction in the Black Sea. Corruption investigation in Victoria, political patronage, branch stacking, Red Shirts and political decay. Rene Girard on scapegoating. Tennyson’s temper of heroic hearts. Regenerated tradition.
Generals, Winston Churchill said, are always prepared to fight the last war. Their early experiences of…
I have posted episode 7 of The Burning Archive Podcast – the ordinary virtues of governing well….
I have posted episode 6 of The Burning Archive Podcast, – the true history of the…
In early 2017 I wrote a series of posts – or let us call them essays…
My repost today comes from 22 April 2018, and seems relevant to the difficulties we are…
Today I am reposting this piece from July 2019, following the 2019 Australian election. It is…
Once ten years ago I gave answers to one of those personal profile questionnaires that aimed…