Poor list, but nice to see Juggernaut get some love.
mubi.com/en/notebook/...

(We still have a statue of Major General Charles "Chinese" Gordon outside Parliament House BTW.)

And it’s all flowing from a tiny handful of diehard racists and nativists who have seized unprecedented power by puppeteering an almost incomprehensibly corrupt and unfit president towards a nativist agenda that would have made the KKK proud.

AND EVERY KEEPS ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL.

The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.

Blue Thunder (1983)
It retained some 70s subversive edge, immediately undermined by the very 80s TV show version that followed.
reactormag.com/blue-thunder...
mikesmoviecave.blogspot.com/2025/11/blue...

I would add The Long Good Friday (1980)
www.bfi.org.uk/features/unc...

Ngl I always do feel a degree of jealousy reading about almost any study or experiment in the old days where the extent of the ethics review appears to have been going "yeah I'm gonna try this and see what happens lol" and a bunch of other academics say "ok lol" while you all smoke indoors..

"They are backed by a group called the Digital Freedom Project, led by NSW upper house MP John Ruddick of the Libertarian Party. So far, the Digital Freedom Project has not revealed who is giving it money."
theconversation.com/two-teens-ha... #auslaw

The 1948 election in South Africa could, I suppose, be said to have killed 'centrism' in that country. It wasn't a lonely grave.

Among many ridiculous "policies" Hughes is touting. The total exclusion of young candidates aside how on earth is an electoral commission supposed to determine whether a candidate has worked for a minimum of 10 years? What if they have been a sporadic worker?

Grattan on Friday: when the music stopped, Greens had out-stepped flat-footed Liberals on environment deal
theconversation.com/grattan-on-f... #ausecon #auspol

A “milestone, a win, and genuine progress” are just three of the terms used to describe a new bill announced by the Albanese government designed to protect Australia's environmental future.
au.news.yahoo.com/albanese-gov... #ausecon #auspol

"The Coalition voted against what Sussan Ley described as a “dirty deal” that would drive up energy prices, although one of her colleagues, the pro-nature senator Andrew McLachlan, crossed the floor to back Labor’s bill."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #ausecon #auspol