Articles by Guy Rundle

Helen Hughes was an economist for the World Bank and a proponent of imposing home ownership on Aboriginal Australians — a ludicrous notion. But Hughes worked hard, even if she got most things wrong.

Christopher Pearson was many things; a commentator for The Australian, a long luncher, an Adelaide Cheshire cat, a committed Maoist, a comeback Catholic. We remember Pearson, who died last weekend.

The sacrifice by Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who unleashed the National Security Agency surveillance scandal, will not be in vain.

Don’t be fooled, we live in a total surveillance age. The US government is definitely spying on its citizens. And Bradley Manning is probably going to jail for the rest of his life.

In an open letter to the Australian Labor Party, Guy Rundle insists that the party prove it has learnt nothing and hurry its own demise by preselecting factional warlord David Feeney for the safe Melbourne seat of Batman.

Crikey’s writer-at-large mediates on life, death, love and loss in London’s most iconic urban neighbourhood. It’s not what it used to be, and never will be again.

Power is changing hands, flipping on its head, ebbing away, growing ever stronger. Guy Rundle on why (lazy cliche of a Yeats poem not withstanding), things are very much falling apart.

The response to the Woolwich terrorists’ attack on drummer Lee Rigby was exactly what the killers were aiming for. Was it a crime or an act of terror?

David Cameron is struggling to keep the Tories together. The party is split on same-sex marriage and the European Union, showing up some poor leadership attributes in the Prime Minister.

Can British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Tory government hang onto EU membership? Or will the UKIP and its allies force the country to go it alone?

There’s nothing like parental leave. Go to a movie, play squash, wash the car — all these activities lie on the same plane. Put “be with your child” in it, you’ll see the difference.

What happened to David Cameron’s pledge to use plain packaging to discourage smoking? Australian political operative Lynton Crosby happened, apparently.

Sycophantic journos at anti-News Limited have fallen in line to praise their colleague Nick Cater’s new book to the skies. It’s a Culture clash that deserves greater scrutiny.

Guy Rundle boards the UK Independence Party’s lurid purple bus and wonders about the future of politics in Britain.

European bees are disappearing, and the buzz from politicians is out of line. The politics of ecological protection are fascinating, writes Crikey’s man in London.

It’s that time of year again … No, the snooker world championships. Our man in England has it covered, from Aussie hope Neal Robertson to the celebrated comeback of Ronnie “Rocket” O’Sullivan.

In the messy aftermath of the Boston bombings, there’s food for thought on the American state and the social media revolution.

Australia is a culture of collectivism, not individualism, and no matter what Nick Cater says in his new book, we will never be American go-getters.

Margaret Thatcher’s state funeral is attracting its share of protesters, most of whom are blithely posting their plans on social media. But the smart ones will turn to encrypted communication.

As Britain prepares to farewell Margaret Thatcher with a paramilitary funeral, Guy Rundle asks the questions about her legacy that the Labour Party is failing to.

John Howard is still defending the war in Iraq, and his speech to to the Lowy Institute is full of lies. Will nobody pull him up on the continuing falsehoods?

The British county of Kent appointed a new youth commissioner — who turns out was acting like a bit of a youth on Twitter. The scandal is a top tabloid fodder across the nation.

Margaret Thatcher is dead. Forget the the fiction that Thatcherism was the only way to modernise a Western economy — it was a second-rate, shoddy approach that left British neighbourhoods in ruins.