Phillip Adams Patrick Mullins provided an excellent substitute with Tiberius on the Telephone including telling that story. I can’t imagine anyone being able to provide the equivalent for Morrison.

You come because you see Catriona Menzies-Pike's byline and you know it'll be good.

You stay because it is damned superb on Scott Morrison's turd sparkle of a memoir.

And you leave with a link to buy my book on Billy McMahon.

crikey.com.au/2024/05/14/sco…

Nice work from Patrick Mullins on Lech Blaine's QE in Australian Book Review
Dutton's 'lack of interest in bringing back to the fold the inner-city seats lost ... in 2022: frees him from any need to adopt the moderate policies that might divide his party room.'
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May the good Lord save me from people who have no expertise but nonetheless feel free to speak.

I reviewed Lech Blaine's new Quarterly Essay on Peter Dutton. See it here:

australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/cur…

A beautiful first edition Penguin of John Hersey’s Hiroshima, courtesy of Matthew Ricketson. And what about that author’s biographical note!

Patrick Mullins I agree. An excellent piece from MargaretSimons re the fallout from the Higgins/Lehrmann case for journalism. There are further nuances about objectivity and advocacy to be teased out, some of which are in this piece I did. insidestory.org.au/were-not-at-wa….

This is everything that we have come to expect of Margaret Simons: thoughtful, clear-eyed, useful.

Not saying anything about anything, but maybe there should be a limit on the number of retired/beloved ABC personalities you can invite to a writers festival. Space 'em out with some writers maybe.

This 1 star review of Portnoy's Complaint is one of the greatest pieces of literary criticism I've ever read

Re-upping this:

insidestory.org.au/grand-days-ian…

A blog post about my new biography-in-progress.
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I read and much admired Nicholas Shakespeare's huge, new, and vivid biography of Ian Fleming. So I wrote about it for Inside Story:

insidestory.org.au/grand-days-ian…

I read and much admired Nicholas Shakespeare's huge, new, and vivid biography of Ian Fleming. So I wrote about it for Inside Story:

insidestory.org.au/grand-days-ian…

'This is a PR debacle purposefully perpetrated on the people by the palace. Predictably, there has been an outbreak of gnashing and gnawing from the keyboards of the media equivalent of the monarchy...'

Who write this tripe?

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'A bevy of scribblers have been attempting to replace the plump Edwardian laird of popular memory with a political master and visionary whose revived example is still relevant'

Patrick Mullins on two new books on Robert Menzies | Melbourne University Publishing & Connor Court
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'In 1943–54, Menzies was more expedient, vulnerable, ruthless, and conflicted than his 1960s-era Emperor Penguin pomp might suggest'

Patrick Mullins on two new books on Robert Menzies | Melbourne University Publishing & Connor Court
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This is such a lovely piece of writing:

insidestory.org.au/ben-chifleys-p…

Pleased to have a review of two new Menzies books in this month’s Australian Book Review :

This is the business.