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Ho-ho-hold it right there - you're on the naughty list! Cops disguised as father Christmas and Santa's little helpers arrest drug gang in Peru - with heroic elf seen cuffing a cocaine crook (Thanks to Roberto)
Universities should encourage overseas students to do courses in health and education, and TAFEs should offer overseas students more traditional trade courses. read now...Apologies – the recent period of inactivity is caused by a period for me – of what the Americans would call ‘off grid’. For those that follow, the unfortunate details are that my mother, a widow, died at the respectably young age of 102¾… Having informed British Gas, they told me to do nothing (by... Read more
from Lars Syll In econometrics one often gets the feeling that many of its practitioners think of it as a kind of automatic inferential machine: input data and out comes causal knowledge. This is like pulling a rabbit from a hat. Great, but as renowned statistician David Freedman had it, first you must put the […]
The UnOz’s Person of the Year award is one of the most anticipated events of the year, with defamation lawyers everywhere especially keen to see the list. If 2022 was a chess game it didn’t go well for the World... Read More ›
Following my annual practice, I have listed here my “novel” reading for 2022. This is a way of documenting what I get through in a year’s worth of reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading. My use of the term “novel” reading is loosely adopted, as you will see from the list to include fiction and then really important non-fiction work I get excited to read in my spare time. As you will see, my novel reading shifted away from novels to much more academic reading in my “free time”. But that approach has been richly rewarding.
1) Dennis McCarthy, The Gospel According to Billy the Kid: A Novel (University of New Mexico Press, 2021).
2) Larry McMurtry, In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas [1968] (Liveright, 2018).
3) J. Frank Dobie, Tongues of the Monte [1935] (University of Texas Press, 1987).
4) Barcley Owens, Cormac McCarthy’s Western Novels (University of Arizona Press, 2000).
5) Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad [1952], trans. Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler (NYRB Classics, 2019).
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There are few institutions like Royal Mail. As one of the oldest postal bodies in the world, the 500-year-old company occupies a unique role in Britain’s national life. During the Second World War, its workers defied Hitler’s bombs; showing their determination to secure their service and keep things moving in the midst of the Blitz, […]
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