It’s worth noting that in the many months since Media Dragon first went live, I haven’t felt the need to recommend too many articles to you. Still, colourful insider stories do find their way to my desk from time to time, and "good" isn’t nearly strong enough a word to describe the article penned by Alex Mitchell. Alex does not seem to have as high opinion about Vaclav Havel as I have, but we seem to share the wisdom embedded in the quote by Charles de Gaulle: In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Bloodstained Premier Shakespearean City of SIN

The script for the election of the next Lord Mayor of Sydney in March 2004 has a quality that is purely Shakespearean.
History, power and a highly developed sense of public duty course through her veins. She is the great-granddaughter of Thomas Hughes, member of the Legislative Council and mayor of Sydney in 1903, and author of an impressive book called Sydney: Biography Of A City.
· The leading lady, Lucy Turnbull, is daughter of the city's noblest Queen's Counsel [Sun Herald]
· The (derailed) Buck Stops with the (49) Train Driver and His Son [Sunday Telegraph (AU)]