Christopher skase


The day James Murdoch took a back seat and was caught napping

The day I spent riding around in the back of a News Ltd car with junior-mogul-in-training James Murdoch, then aged 14, was a bizarre experience, writes Mike Safe, a former feature writer on The Weekend Australian Magazine.

Parallels aplenty with the late 1980s

I reckon there are loads of similarities today with that remarkable period from the stockmarket peak in October 1987 through until Paul Keating’s “recession we had to have” in 1991, writes Stephen Mayne.

MFS, Centro and Allco – the teetering trifecta

The teetering trifecta of MFS, Allco and Centro are continuing to provide plenty of action as they sink under a truckload of debt and the bad smell of destroyed reputations ,writes Stephen Mayne.