Maintain Your Rage
A newsletter of Australian history, politics, and economics by a True Believer.
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Gordon Brown: Power With Purpose (opens the original)
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There is an anecdote in Andrew Rawnsley’s somewhat gossipy account of the final years of New Labour, The End of the Party, that speaks of the personal and political divisions at the heart of the rivalry between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.In Rawnsley’s telling, Tony Blair as Prime Minister sat in the Commons watching his Chancellor of the Exchequer delivering the budget speech. Blair, according to Rawnsley, generally favoured concentrating spending on health and education rather than Brown’s ‘re
Are we becoming “post-literate”? (opens the original)
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Have we become a post-literate society?This is the provocative question Rose Horowitch posed about in her recent article in The Atlantic “The end of reading is here”, which has (deservedly) been doing the rounds.Horowitch points to a central paradox of our time: people are generally reading few
"Enshittification" by Cory Doctorow reviewed (opens the original)
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The term “enshittification” has felt near ubiquitous in tech discussions in recent years. The populariser of this term is renowned lefty tech commentator and author Cory Doctorow, who first used the term back in 2022 (the OED mentions earlier uses).Doctorow is an incisive critic of the modern platform-based economy, and the processes through which online services have been made far worse for users, all while the companies behind them get richer and richer.‘It’s not just you&
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