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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

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The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Tuesday
Nov172020

Morals Monitor Malcolm birches Priapic Porter

• DateTuesday, November 17, 2020

Public Bar's private affairs ... Sloppy ministers cling on while others are drummed out of the regiment ... Smears and fudges ... Ministerial dregs ... Whistleblowing in the wind ... Horrible times ahead ... Polly Peck reports from Canberra 

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Friday
Nov132020

Heads on pikes

• DateFriday, November 13, 2020
Statutory corporations and the Cartier watch princess ... PM yelling directions at the Aus Post CEO ... Board stacked with party hacks ... Trump and the impact of narcissism on the executive branch ... The Fifth Risk ... Procrustes unloads 
Thursday
Nov122020

Gun cabinet joker

• DateThursday, November 12, 2020

No harm from emotional domestic flare-up ... Life in the suburbs ... Too much pineapple juice ... Queensland Madge hauled over the coals ... Miscarriage of justice ... Apprehended bias ... (No. It's not Sal Vasta) ... Threats to solicitor ... New trial ... Start again ... Michael Baker reports 

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Monday
Nov092020

Post-election prospects

• DateMonday, November 9, 2020

Still an enormous number of hypnotised chooks in America ... What's on the cooker till January 20 ... The prospects of plunder during the interregnum ... The presidency as a private financial asset ... Republican judicial mischief ahead ... Corporate prosecutions on easy terms before the Democrats take over ... Roger Fitch in Washington rakes over the ruins 

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Saturday
Nov072020

Corruption Concealment Commission

• DateSaturday, November 7, 2020

As pressure mounts out of the hat jumps draft legislation for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission ... Peculiar structure based on flawed reasons ... Porter's politician protection racket ... Drinking News Corp's Kool-Aid ... Janek Drevikovsky reports

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Friday
Nov062020

Steward's taxing ways

• DateFriday, November 6, 2020

Taxation and the latest addition to the High & Mighty ... Trials and tribulations of tax minimisers ... Foreigners in Paris ... Mistreatment of multinationals and the "rule of law" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports on what Simon says 

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Tuesday
Nov032020

Tbilisi uncorked

• DateTuesday, November 3, 2020

A ripping yarn ... Stalin and the Tsar's wine cellar ... Adventures in Georgia with George and Nino ... Hunting for Chateau d'Yquem ... Justinian's wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler recalls a lasting taste memory ... History and geography ... Raiders of the Lost Wine 

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Tuesday
Nov032020

Leverhulme in lockdown

• DateTuesday, November 3, 2020

The legacy of womanising prime ministers ... Leverhulme seeks to put Boris in context, while others rage ... A new work explains the damage wrought by the PM's feckless father ... The void within ... Disease, death and lockdown ... Lord Sumption on his libertarian soapbox 

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Friday
Oct302020

Drama at the Sandgropers' grill

, • DateFriday, October 30, 2020

New procedures to deal with groping grievances ... Outcry at the WA bar over the president's ham-fisted message on sexual harassment ... Female barristers incandescent ... CJ drawn into the fracas ... History of sex-pest judges in Perth ... Shock at Dicey Heydon revelations ... Grievance stewards ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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