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Guy Rundle  — Correspondent-at-large

Guy Rundle

Correspondent-at-large

Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He's a former editor of Arena Magazine and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.

The unclassifiable genius of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks

Van would go on to produce some great music; he never again produced anything like Astral Weeks. But who did?

Coming up, on the next episode of Ramsay (Centre) Street ...

When last you tuned in, Harold (John Howard) was trying to set up a Methodist Information Centre in the high school. But not everyone's happy about it.

Manafort scandal exposes the real motives of Trump's presidency

The moment when the genuine, actual, honest-to-God smoking gun appears – an email offering influence for financial favours, a lessening of the Trump organisation’s enormous debts – is getting closer.

Hang on... did Abbott manufacture this whole Ramsay Centre blow-up?

The fallout from the Ramsay Centre collapse is in full swing and once loyal comrades are beginning to sharpen their knives -- it's like a scene out of the Bolshevik Russia.

Ramsay Centre collapses under the weight of Western stupidity

Tony Abbott's support may not have killed the ANU's plans to host the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, but he and his goon-squad-turned-cheer-squad-on-the-right certainly didn't help.

Rundle reads the right so you don't have to: nasty, brutish and short edition

When attempting to write a takedown on a commentator, the right would do well to make sure they're not just providing free advertising.

Rundle: on Elizabeth, the town Australia failed

The city of Elizabeth, South Australia, stands as an exemplar of lost possibilities; of what could have been but was squandered.

Rundle: with guardians of Western civilisation like these, who needs barbarians?

The Tony Abbott-championed Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation will not only be witheringly cynical, but structurally racist as well.

New Labor faction stonewalls at state conference

A gag motion at the Victorian Labor conference on the weekend was a product of a CFMEU-AWU alliance, a first outing for the "Industrial Left – Centre Unity" faction, working together smooth as butter knife on toast.

Rundle: like smoke vanishing in the late autumn air

Guy Rundle salvages what he can from the now-gone Checkerboard Tobacco and Book Exchange in Windsor, Melbourne.