'(Ironically, the history degree has proven hugely valuable in a business that is all about first-hand reporting, detecting narrative bias and the second source.)' Weird use of 'ironically'. Surely this value is also part of why so many lawyers have studied history at university.
‘Anyone who thinks that the sportswashing which stains the contemporary game is a recent development might be grimly consoled by its precedents.’
Simon Skinner on the history of the World Cup, online early from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
For the Pacific Islander women who harvest the fruit and vegetables that stock Australia’s supermarket shelves, motherhood here can mean injury, debt, secrecy and fear.
Those poor, deprived souls are the real heroes
Damn right! Where’s the recognition due for those who fought and died to save Queensland’s beer?!
Today we are wishing a Happy Birthday to Maurice Sendak, who was born #onthisdate in 1928.
If you've not read Where The Wild Things Are, read it today. Or if you've not read it for a while, read it today.
And then let the wild rumpus start.
Not the first time the Socceroos have used World Cup platform to promote multiculturalism. This article I co-authored examined how Australia’s successful first qualification for the 1974 World Cup was used to underline the nation’s 1970s ’multiculturalism moment’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
So proud of our Socceroos ⚽️ ❤️👏🏼
Socceroos promote multiculturalism with video address on immigration: ‘Football is for everyone’
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
84 years ago, on the 12th of June 1942, Anne Frank received her first diary for her 13th birthday. That day she wrote: 'I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.' #otd #history 🗃️
‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history
As costs soar and graduate prospects dim, the value of higher education can no longer be taken for granted
For the Pacific Islander women who harvest the fruit and vegetables that stock Australia’s supermarket shelves, motherhood here can mean injury, debt, secrecy and fear.