The stakes are too high – the party is over!

The stakes are too high – the party is over!

Jul 26, 2018

Party politics has been allowed to take control over the political discourse at all levels. The voters are disillusioned and disengaged. How do we break the Gordian Knot of partisan control over democracy?

In Search of Good Government: Great Expectations & Political Amnesia

Jul 23, 2018

author: Laura Tingle name: Kim average rating: 4.38 book published: rating: 5 read at: 2018/07/19 date added: 2018/07/23 shelves: review: Laura Tingle does something few of our political commentators manage: to write with the deep insight of an insider without...
The Naked President

The Naked President

Jul 18, 2018

The problem with Trump is not Donald Trump. The really scary part is that nobody is standing up to him.

Taboo

Jul 15, 2018

author: Kim Scott name: Kim average rating: 3.94 book published: 2017 rating: 4 read at: 2018/04/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: This was the first of Kim Scott’s books that I have read. It won’t be the last! Scott is of Aboriginal origins and...

Saigon

Jul 15, 2018

author: Anthony Grey name: Kim average rating: 4.35 book published: 1982 rating: 5 read at: 2018/02/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: Read this after watching Ken Burns’ excellent documentary on the Vietnam War. Although this book is historical fiction,...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Jul 14, 2018

author: T.E. Lawrence name: Kim average rating: 3.93 book published: 1926 rating: 4 read at: 2018/06/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: The movie is one of my all time favourites, the man an intriguing character of a tragic period of history. I have always had...

Too Soon to Say Goodbye

Jul 14, 2018

author: Art Buchwald name: Kim average rating: 4.05 book published: 2006 rating: 2 read at: 2018/02/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: My dad loved Art Buchwald, and I was once a big fan, too – had kind of forgotten about him for a few decades when I...

Lincoln in the Bardo

Jul 14, 2018

author: George Saunders name: Kim average rating: 3.76 book published: 2017 rating: 1 read at: 2018/01/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: It’s won prizes, so it’s one of those books that one is “supposed” to love. Well I didn’t,...

The Pirates

Jul 14, 2018

author: Matthew West name: Kim average rating: 3.51 book published: 2015 rating: 4 read at: 2018/07/14 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves:...

Sound of a Murder: A Scandinavian Crime Thriller (Marius Tokle)

Jul 14, 2018

author: Pål Undall name: Kim average rating: 4.00 book published: rating: 5 read at: 2018/07/14 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: Needless to say – five stars from me – I translated it!Want to get a bit of background about the book, go to...

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