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The world's richest man - perhaps the richest man who has ever lived - gloating about shutting down aid for the world's poorest people. All while posing as the champion of the common man.
The great lie of populism in its most naked and morally putrid form.
Every day, a migrant saves someone's life in an operation, teaches a child, cleans a building, is a good neighbour or parent.
That never leads the news.
No gangs rush down streets thanking people who *might* be migrants.
But as soon as an atrocity happens, all "migrants" are held responsible. 1/3
Treating any communication platform that algorithmically selects which content to put in front of a user as a publisher, and legally responsible for that content, is the screamingly obvious solution that will deeply upset maybe seven companies and make life considerably better.
Frankly it's a failure of governance that university leaders can still get away with this genre of bland whimpering.
Robert Saunders
Robert Saunders
Imv, what the TV companies say they offer ("analysis") is not necessarily what the actually sell and what many people watch for, which is "talking points"
The audience is changing over time, towards more/better actual analysis. The newer, mostly female pundits are at the front of this curve
Another diagnostic piece about UK universities:
www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
The fact that there is a glut of 'where we are' pieces and a dearth of good 'where we should be going' pieces is revealing. The problems are deep and difficult
It’s so wild that we are dependent on the grieving families of recently dead and maimed people for leadership right now Jesus Christ
'Strategic plans have become so expansive and aspirational that they cease to guide choices. When almost every goal, value and aspiration is declared a priority, the plan cannot resolve the inevitable conflicts that real resource allocation involves.
This is not a trivial failure.'
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A decade of shocks has left higher education working conditions feeling like one firefight after another. For Doug Specht, leadership decision-making must recover some degree of strategic calm A decad...
A statement from the family:
“We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country, including in our healthcare system and hospitality sector, and we depend on them to make our country work. We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility.”
One of the obvious problems with a under-16 social media ban is that it won't work. (60%+ of Australian under-16s are still using these platforms).
But it will make people feel like something has been done so they won't tackle the content, which is the real issue.
