December 2020 – Page 2 – THE BLOT REPORT

Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison

By adminAustralian Politics, UK Politics13 Comments

When the federal Coalition was elected to government in 2013, they took a great deal of glee in repealing the very effective Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). It was in…

A lack of imagination

By adminAustralian Politics, Science, UK Politics, US Politics6 Comments

I read a piece in the New Yorker by Anthony Gottlieb about the Cambridge mathematician Frank Ramsey1, a person of whom I had never heard. Reading about Ramsey makes one…

Two things I want you to imagine: 1) The media reaction if Victoria had made a mistake and allowed international arrivals fly elsewhere without quarantine. 2) The media reaction if the two people who flew to Melbourne avoiding quarantine had been black.

Claire Coleman

December 6, 2020

Republicans think that children being slaughtered in their classrooms with weapons of war is the cost of freedom but that wearing a mask to save lives during a pandemic is too high a price to pay.

Bradley Whitford

December 3, 2020