There was something slightly obscene about a majority of Australians — bogans and latte sippers united — reaction to the clear brutality in some Indonesian slaughterhouses.
Guy Rundle
IPA: ‘we have not been missing in action’
IPA has been the leading advocate for the centre-right in Australia to be more libertarian, in both economic and social spheres, writes James Paterson, associate editor of the Institute of Public Affairs’ Review.
Bigger problems in the nanny state than cig packs
As a consumer society encourages the reality and perception of cultural disarray — from sexting to obesity — the state takes over control of life that would once have been the preserve of cultural norms or the individual conscience.
Rundle: shepherds, portents and Europe face-to-face in Athens
Weeks after it began, the world’s press has started to pay attention to the real story in Greece — the continued refusal of the people of Greece to accept the conditions going with it.
Guy Rundle: The frightening automation of Planet Manchester
We have always known that — we, who think about such things, anyway — but the implicit assumption has always been that automation would come to industry first.
Rundle: UK polls, clan do in Scotland and a beetroot lemonade first
Outside of a full-bore general election, it’s about as heavy an official political moment as you could get in the UK — and at least one result has the potential for enormous repercussions.
Rundle: a boringly genuine marriage
Our Kate is no Diana, although the eating disorder appears to be coming along nicely.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Wow. News of the World hacking scandal explodes
The whole scandal has blown up mere weeks after News was given the go-ahead to take a controlling interesting in Sky Broadcasting.
Guy Rundle: Extreme, maybe, but how much can the Greens stand for?
The ethical core of Green politics is that collectively and democratically, people should have control over those parts of human existence that are intrinsically shared and universal.
Guy Rundle: Fantasies of multiculturalism, ordinariness and Ozstalgie
The one thing the Australian public will never be presented with is the real choice — do you want genuine community control over immigration policy, levels and source (a process that would generate an answer liked by neither left nor right)?
Guy Rundle: Politics and plaster ducks, aka kitsch as kitsch can
There’s always something mysterious about kitsch; every time you think you’ve defined it, it slips away.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Pollyanna rhetoric hiding the truth on helping Libyans
The question of outside support for Libya through the means of a no-fly zone and other measures, has become urgent — if it is not already too late.
Rundle's America The failure of Obama to take people with him
Whatever difficulties the Democrats have had to bear through ill-luck, controversial policies or the like, one whole dimension of this loss is due to the political failure of Obama and his team to take people with him, writes Guy Rundle.
Rundle’s mid-terms: the rally for sanity, by design, a long way from revolution
It was exciting, it was wild, it was a mad carnival — and, it has to be said, something of a fizzer. The Rally to Restore Sanity may have done just that — which is hardly a revolution, reports Guy Rundle from Washington DC.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s mid-terms: a Rhode well travelled … oh, and we killed Bambi
I’d come to Rhode Island to see what a New England campaign was like. Now I knew. It was like Old England, or Europe at least. , writes Guy Rundle, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Same-s-x adoption: exposing the myths in Rundle’s stance
Guy Rundle has made a case against adoption by male same-s-x couples that is a hodgepodge of gut-driven opinion, writes Dr Tad Tietze, a public hospital psychiatrist.
Crikey Says: Our uniquely frustrating election experience
There’s one thing nearly everyone can agree on when it comes to this election campaign. It’s hollow. Devoid of meaning. Cancerous. What no one can reach agreement on is who’s to blame.
Wankley Awards: The bloke fest at Melbourne Talk Radio
This week’s Wankley goes to the all-male all-white launch of Melbourne Talk Radio at Gordon Ramsay’s Crown Casino noshery. All male, that is, save for the Women’s Weekly Deborah Thomas.
Craven on reviewing and Rundle — ‘the blustering sook’
He’s such a weird and lopsided character, Guy Rundle. It’s a mystery how this man who can be so intelligent can also carry on in such a mad dog undergraduatish way, says theatre critic Peter Craven.
Guy Rundle: Friday book review: Fishing in Utopia
Andrew Brown’s account of the most successful social democracy in his book Fishing In Utopia - Sweden and the Future That Disappeared serves as a prism for the political questions we face.
More drama over the PEN anthology
After nearly 40 years of public support for our literature, dramatic literature is still the poor relation, writes Katherine Brisbane. Are plays really that difficult to enjoy?
We need new fast trains … fast.
We are all to blame with our pathetic mimicking of the American arrogant entitlement to drive anywhere we want. But fast rail lines, like those seen in Spain, are exactly what Australia’s public transport system needs.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Left
Crikey readers debate Guy Rundle’s views on the Left. Plus, discrimination debate and the full time mess that is dealing with Centrelink.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A fair and just society?
Crikey readers weigh in on whether Australia is a fair and just society and the continued storm of controversy around our dusty East Coast.
