“Donald Trump, American authoritarianism and how journalists should cover it”. The ABC broadcast of my 2024 Brian Johns memorial media lecture. ⁦ abc.net.au/listen/program…

Thrilled to be delivering the 2024 Ramsay Murray lecture at Selwyn College Cambridge University next week:
'All politics is history: America in the Age of Trump'.
sel.cam.ac.uk/events/rm24

Anyone who covered Northern Ireland around the time of the Good Friday Agreement hung on Stephen Grimason’s every word. This is a lovely tribute from ⁦Mark Simpson⁩ to an extraordinary journalist. bbc.com/news/uk-northe…

“A superb achievement. An exceptionally thoughtful, astute and moving book. Nobody with the slightest interest in America's future can afford to miss it.” Kind words from the The Rest Is History host Dominic Sandbrook, a historian whose work I've enjoyed and admired going back decades.

In the past two years, domestic violence assaults reported by NSW Police have increased by 6.7 per cent, while intimidation, stalking and harassment reports have increased by 6.1 per cent.

smh.com.au/national/nsw/v…

'Exceptionally thoughtful, astute and moving.' Dominic Sandbrook

In The Forever War, Nick Bryant tells the story of how America’s extreme polarisation is 250 years in the making.

Publishing 6th June, pre-order your copy now.

The brilliance of david rowe

How many more women have to die before we get serious about this epidemic? smh.com.au/politics/nsw/h…
'Her killing is so horrific, so senseless, and so outrageous that it may finally force a cultural reckoning on our bizarre unwillingness to come to grips with the very well-known…

This is really worth a listen - and very much resonates with my own observations at the time.

very very powerful address. Needs wide viewership

Always like this Clive James line. Applies to Oz: ‘Sydney has never been a suitable place for sustained solemnity. I can remember how in my childhood the local population would manage to stay solemn for the first half of Anzac Day, and then the joy of life once again took over.’

I had the great honour of delivering the Brian Johns media lecture in Sydney. I took as my theme the question of how to cover Donald Trump and what we as an industry we can learn from our mistakes in 2016 and beyond.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKQ-a…
Copyright Agency State Library of NSW

Great news. Give him the job for life. Manager of the season.

I don't how many more nails need to be banged into the coffin of the Australian cultural cringe - Australia's cultural clout is fare more significant, and has been for decades - but here is yet another one........

Delighted that Barnes and Noble have selected my forthcoming book, The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict with Itself, for a pre-publication promotion Barnes & Noble Bloomsbury U.S. Bloomsbury Books UK
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What a headline to wake up to…..

The Opera House tonight with a black ribbon in honour of the six victims - five of whom were women - of the Bondi Junction attack.