Joyce’s Dublin, Dos Passos’ New York, Woolf’s London, Proust’s Paris, Kafka’s Prague: Howwriters don't merely describe a city but reconstruct it
Think of genius not as an isolated individual, but as the spirit of circumstance. Genius is contingent — precarious, rare, magical
Australian Tax Office overhauls fraud and evasion procedures
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When the Times called to tell Alice Dreger that she's part of a powerful alliance — the "intellectual dark web" — she laughed. Then she got one’s financial fortune comes not from building a business or helping improve the human condition, but from taking commissions in the finance sector? (15 minutes).
Why we should bulldoze the business school – Martin Parker, the Guardian.
On Iran and North Korea, Trump prepares to screw everything up – Paul Waldman, The Washington Post
Crooked Trump? – Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books
Why Trump supporters don’t mind his lies – Daniel A Effron, The New York Times
On ABC Saturday Extra:
A peaceful revolution in Armenia could lead to opposition MP Nikol Pashinhyan becoming Prime Minister, a man who has previously been jailed for arranging street protests. (Olesya Vartanyan) Why has Turkey’s leader Recep Erdogan just announced early elections? (Fadi Hakura and Dr David Tittensor) Scene-setter for the weekend elections in Malaysia (James Chin) Investigations into Australian banks have raised many questions including the role of boards and whether they need to be more proactive in seeking our problems before they become a crisis. (Allan Fells, Diane Smith-Gander and Stephen Mayne) If the nature of combat has changed, what are the expectations of the modern soldier? Lucas Grainger-Brown, winner of the 2018 Calibre Essay prize. On the 200thanniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, what do his theories offer us today? (Bernd Ziesemer) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/
Center for Data Innovation: “The European Commission has published a package of measures
entitled “Towards a common European data space,” which aims to promote
the sharing and re-use of data in the European Union. The only
legislative component of the package is a proposal to revise
the Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive, which requires member
states to allow individuals and organizations to re-use publicly-held
data. The proposed changes are all positive in that they would boost the
reuse of public sector data, but it would be better if member states
agreed to a general obligation to make the data available by default.
The PSI Directive,
which was adopted in 2003 and last amended in 2013, requires member
states to ensure publicly-held data can be reused for both commercial
and non-commercial purposes, such as by permitting re-use in content
licenses and by using open standards. However, the Directive is neither
an open data law nor a freedom of information law, because public bodies
do not have to publish anything or let citizens access anything (unless
national law says otherwise), and can screen each request to reuse the
data they do make available. As the Center for Data Innovation pointed
out in a recent report,
only a couple of EU member states perform particularly well in open
data, and some even lack functioning freedom of information laws. The
Commission’s proposed amendments would not establish a general
obligation to release data either, but they would require member states
to ensure that “high value datasets,”
of which the Commission will publish a list, are available for free,
are machine-readable, and are accessible via application programming
interfaces (APIs), which allow third parties to more easily integrate
data into their own applications and tools.
On Iran and North Korea, Trump prepares to screw everything up – Paul Waldman, The Washington Post
Fact check: Is Australia’s tax to GDP ratio lower now than it was throughout the Howard years? – Josh Gordon, ABC News
Investment Boom From Trump’s Tax Cut Has Yet to Appear – Matt Phillips and Jim Tankersley, The New York Times
Trump becomes more dovish toward North Korea, but surrounds himself with hawks – David Nakamura and John Hudson, The Washington Post
There’s No Escape From Australia’s Refugee Gulag – Mark Isaacs, Foreign Policy
Malcolm Turnbill has become a de-facto climate denier – Giles Parkinson, RE New EconomyCrooked Trump? – Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books
Why Trump supporters don’t mind his lies – Daniel A Effron, The New York Times
On ABC Saturday Extra:
A peaceful revolution in Armenia could lead to opposition MP Nikol Pashinhyan becoming Prime Minister, a man who has previously been jailed for arranging street protests. (Olesya Vartanyan) Why has Turkey’s leader Recep Erdogan just announced early elections? (Fadi Hakura and Dr David Tittensor) Scene-setter for the weekend elections in Malaysia (James Chin) Investigations into Australian banks have raised many questions including the role of boards and whether they need to be more proactive in seeking our problems before they become a crisis. (Allan Fells, Diane Smith-Gander and Stephen Mayne) If the nature of combat has changed, what are the expectations of the modern soldier? Lucas Grainger-Brown, winner of the 2018 Calibre Essay prize. On the 200thanniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, what do his theories offer us today? (Bernd Ziesemer) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/
Deadliest day in four years may trigger outright war in Gaza as nations hit out at Trump
The Tax Office has denied using voluntary redundancies to target out-of-favour staff after a union said some have been told they would be performance ...