Month: November 2015

  • Not just another brick in the wall

    Not just another brick in the wall

    The decision of the Lego company not to supply the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei with bricks for a new artwork is one of the most striking instances I can recall of life imitating art. A huge and impersonal power structure combining arbitrary state power and capitalistic greed; the determination of that power structure to silence…

  • Currying favour: Scott Morrison on Kitchen Cabinet

    Currying favour: Scott Morrison on Kitchen Cabinet

    When I read in the telly guide that the Treasurer Scott Morrison was going to be making Annabel Crabb a Sri Lankan curry on the season-opener of Kitchen Cabinet I thought it must be a joke. Oh right, I can remember thinking; and what else will the one-time Minister in Charge of Not Answering Questions…