Wear with a white tie and basketball shoes for the ‘tweaker at Melbourne Magistrates Court’ vibe.

If anyone is in any doubt as to the nature of the crypto/blockchain “ecosystem” read this and try to discern one concrete argument for either of them. Backed by evidence. This is word salad. It would merely be embarrassing if they weren’t so close to the levers of power.

I would like to watch Severance, but that would require me downloading Apple TV and I don’t know if I’m doing all of that.

“Stop the fake cigarette” Owner of the brand flooding the Australian black market claims they’re all counterfeit. #FourCorners dives into the world of illicit tobacco. By ⁦Dan Oakes⁩ ⁦Mayeta Clark⁩ ⁦Kirsten Robb⁩ #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-03-0…

Sean Nicholls Dan Oakes Mayeta Clark Kirsten Robb Elephant in room in #FourCorners: USA, Canada, UK have cheaper cigs than Australia, yet they have MASSIVE illicit trade. So how is dropping excise in Australia going to stem illicit trade. See simonchapman6.com/2025/03/03/che…

As David Edgerton notes, far from the image of a crisis torn decade that Thatcher fixed, the reality was that her government in fact inherited uniquely an economy & infrastructure made successful by mass state investment, which she then dismantled. Thatcher was a vandal.

Tale of two tweets

One of the unintentionally funniest lines I’ve read for a while

Dutton must embrace Trump | The Spectator Australia. Worth re-visiting this extremely prescient piece of commentary. If only this advice had been followed 😔 spectator.com.au/2025/03/dutton…

bbc.com/news/articles/… Can’t keep the horror at bay indefinitely

Squeeze - Up the Junction

“But the Voice will entrench different treatment for races!” 🫠 abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0…

We’ve reached the “company posting snuff movies as advertising” stage of things.

Assumed this was just another Erin Patterson tie-in tbh

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This from the Age story this morning about Resolve polling. I find this quite shocking, given the sound and fury around the issue. How do you explain the disparity between the fevered public debate and the level of actual concern indicated by the polling?

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵