Van would go on to produce some great music; he never again produced anything like Astral Weeks. But who did?
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.
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.
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.
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.
When attempting to write a takedown on a commentator, the right would do well to make sure they're not just providing free advertising.
The city of Elizabeth, South Australia, stands as an exemplar of lost possibilities; of what could have been but was squandered.
The Tony Abbott-championed Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation will not only be witheringly cynical, but structurally racist as well.
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.
Guy Rundle salvages what he can from the now-gone Checkerboard Tobacco and Book Exchange in Windsor, Melbourne.