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The history of the #office—a review of Gideon Haigh’s book Momentous Eventful Day. New post on The next wave
Gideon Haigh is the best known for his outstanding writing on cricket, but he also has a sideline in writing about business. He brings the same eye to this—informed, always slightly sceptical—as he does to his cricket books. And, as with his cricket coverage, he wears his learning lightly.
I missed his book The Office from the early 2010s, so I was pleased to stumble on his more recent book on…
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Outside the Frame: Art and the Moving Image is a guide to creativity, the artworks, and the institutional armature that underpins the moving image.
Featuring artworks by Lynette Wallworth, Warwick Thornton, Shaun Gladwell, Daniel Crooks, Angelica Mesiti, David Rosetzky, Hossein Valamanesh, Trent Parke and Narelle Autio, Molly Reynolds and Rolf de Heer, Soda Jerk, Zanny Begg, Amos Gebhardt, John Harvey, Jason Phu, Gabriella Hirst, Madison Bycroft, Reko Rennie, and Amrita Hepi; new contextual essays by Kate Warren and Lauren Carroll Harris; a conversation between Anna Zagala, Amos Gebhardt and Jason Phu; and new and republished historical texts by Catherine Wilson, Anna Zagala, Sarah Tutton, Erica Green, Ulanda Blair, Emma McCrae, Fiona Trigg, Hamid Severi, Gideon Haigh, Robert McFarlane, Jessie Scott, Isobel Parker Philip, Adolfo Aranjuez, Jenna Rain Warwick, Chelsey O’Brien, Shelley McSpedden, Kathryn Weir, McKenzie Wark, and Kate ten Buuren.
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Certain Admissions by Gideon Haigh
Certain Admissions by well-known Australian cricket journalist and writer Gideon Haigh is one of my favourite true crime reads of recent times. The book was released in 2015 but I finally got around to reading it last week (too many books, too little time!). This book is about John Bryan Kerr, who was subject to one of the most high profile murder cases in Melbourne. At the end of 1949, at age 24, sometime radio announcer and dapper young man Kerr was arrested for the murder of young typist, Beth Williams, 20. A passer-by had stumbled upon Beth’s body at the beach at Albert Park. Her clothes were torn and it appeared as if she’d been strangled. Controversially, an unsigned confession by Kerr was entered into evidence and he stood before three trials because then, capital crimes (murder) needed unanimous decisions from the jury. Kerr was sentenced to death and went to Pentridge Prison where he seemed to adapt to life behind bars as a debater, actor and avid basketballer. However Kerr’s death sentence was commuted and he was released in the mid 1960s. This is where the story, well to me at least, gets really intriguing. On his release Kerr finds it difficult to adjust to life and changes his name to Wallace. Haigh is able to recount, through interviews and research, what life is life for Kerr/Wallace as he tries to hide his past. The description by Haigh of his research process for this book is also intriguing and the Public Records office of Victoria plays a large part in this story because the author was gained unprecedented access to files to dig into the story of Kerr/Wallace, who always maintained his innocence. But the reader will also wonder whether Kerr could have committed the murder… Certain Admissions is top class true crime. Here’s something I wrote about the book last year when I interviewed Gideon Haigh.
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Future of Law Thought - 13.09.2022 (Ideas)
Future of Law Thought – 13.09.2022 (Ideas)
It is not facts we find compelling so much as ideas
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Ugly trend that can poison Indian cricket / GIDEON HAIGH
How we grew to admire them this summer, those dashing, defiant, skilful and fun Indian cricketers, led first by Virat Kohli then Ajinkya Rahane, as they taught Australia numerous cricket lessons. How we enjoyed, too, the scenes of their deservedly rapturous homecomings.
Prime minister Narendra Modi enjoyed exercising his prerogative of using the cricket team as symbolic of his “new India”. That “they took the challenge head on and looked for fresh solutions instead of getting frustrated by difficult conditions” exemplified how the nation could “emerge fearless” if “we overcome the fear of failure and unnecessary pressure”.
Standard stuff, of course. But let’s look a little closer, shall we?
Modi enjoys a curiously benign reputation hereabouts. Generally, Australian politicians look on India as simply a nice juicy trade market that is (a) not China and (b) see (a). “World’s largest democracy” comes trippingly off the tongue.
Unfortunately, India is a democracy in worsening decay, thanks to seven years of the BJP’s Hindu majoritarianism, at odds with the country’s traditions of pluralism and tolerance. And that’s got implications for cricket, even Australian cricket, of which we should be aware.
The ruling BJP’s modus operandi is demonising minorities, subverting institutions, intimidating media, criminalising dissent and, not least, tyrannising the internet.
No country shuts and throttles the net so regularly; no political party operates such slickly vicious online trolling. India swims in social media; into it the BJP’s digital operatives have a habit of throwing bloody bait, viz liberal celebrities, independent journalists and academics who have stepped out of line. Especially since last September.
That was when Modi’s administration rammed through the Rajya Sabha three bills designed to “liberalise” Indian agriculture. There had been no consultative process; the bills’ passage violated all parliamentary and constitutional norms; the laws were devoid of regulatory and legal protections for farmers, and as such a prescription for monopoly abuse, in a country where a score of companies already earn 70 per cent of corporate profits.
Discontent has roiled since. Demonstrations have been largely peaceful, if on an epic scale: a one-day strike in November involving 250 million people may well be the largest single protest in history, involving ten times as many people as marched for Black Lives Matter last year.
One exception was 26 January, India’s Republic Day, when 200 farmers were “detained” by Delhi’s notoriously violent police after diverting a march to the Red Fort. The same cops then created a cause célèbre by arresting a 22-year-old activist, Disha Ravi, basically for having the temerity to communicate with Greta Thunberg, which was described as showing intent “to wage economic, social, cultural and regional war against India.”
Why? Because India’s government craves the world’s attention but recoils from its scrutiny, and busily nourishes paranoia about foreign treachery so as to turn the political into the patriotic. And what really lit the blue touch paper was a tweet on 3 February by Rihanna, linking to a CNN article about an internet shutdown following the confrontation at the Red Fort.
“Why aren’t we talking about this?”, asked the pop chanteuse of her 100 million followers, adding the hashtag #FarmersProtests and generating almost a million likes.
Modi promptly upped the ante, threatening to jail Twitter’s local executives if Jack Dorsey did not suppress 100 allegedly “pro-farmer” accounts; Dorsey hastily capitulated.
Cyber battle was also joined by an army of counter tweeters flourishing hashtag banners such as #IndiaTogether and #IndiaAgainstPropaganda, somehow oblivious to their irony. And these included the elite of the country’s cricketers.
This is hardly so surprising. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is another institution increasingly pervaded by Modi’s myrmidons.
In November 2019, the BCCI “elected” as secretary Jay Shah and as treasurer Arun Singh Dhumal – respectively the son of home minister Amit Shah and the brother of finance minister Anurag Thakur, two particularly repulsive Modi cronies. The same election also promoted a character from Rajpur, Mahim Verma, secretary of the fledgling Cricket Association of Uttakharand – more on him presently.
Leading the way was Sachin Tendulkar: “External forces can be spectators but not participants. India’s sovereignty cannot be compromised. External forces can be spectators but not participants. Indians know India and should decide for India. Let’s remain united as a nation.”
Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ravi Shastri, Rohit Sharma and Anil Kumble issued slightly more emollient sentiments, with further calls for “unity” – implicitly echoing another BJP talking point, for which evidence is scant, that the farmers are aligned with Sikh separatists. Probably Rihanna fans too.
How strange that all these cricketers should have decided, independently and all at once, to inveigh against “propaganda”! How strange that they should then shrink from the week’s other significant Indian cricket issue….
Having played the last of 31 Tests in 2008, Wasim Jaffer has towered above Indian domestic cricket like Everest. He retired last March after playing more than 150 Ranji Trophy matches and accumulating almost 20,000 first-class runs at an average better than 50, and was recruited as coach by Uttakharand in north India.
Except it all ended acrimoniously on 10 February when Jaffer quit, “because of so much interference and bias of selectors and secretary in the selection matters for non-deserving players” – the secretary being old mate Verma.
Jaffer, though, is a Muslim. So Verma trumped up counterclaims of “communalism”: Jaffer’s preference for coreligionists. This is a classic trope of Hindu chauvinism, obsessed with the existence of a Muslim fifth column.
Nobody of any repute believes that the new coach did other than fall victim to overmighty, sticky-nosed locals, and he did attract some Twitter support, including from Kumble, who said that Jaffer had “done the right thing” in resigning.
But from Jaffer’s former comrades in the national side, nothing was heard. Why? Because, one imagines, it was as against their interests to speak up about sectarianism as it was in their interests to obediently regurgitate BJP slogans.
Some readers will be shaking their heads by now – those readers who haven’t already drifted off out of a rooted objection to cricket articles involving anything but cover drives and outswingers – about it just going to show how sport and politics should not mix.
They will be just as wrong. Sport and politics do mix, and always have: the questions revolve around in what proportion and to what ends. In India, those proportions are increasingly ugly and those ends worseningly oppressive; they should trouble every conscience.
On Thursday night, Fox Sports broadcasted a live feed of the player auction for the Indian Premier League. This is the face the BCCI likes to show the world – that of a big, benevolent sugar daddy, showering riches on the cricket world’s best. Go Maxy! Look at those lucky young quicks!
But how should we feel if the BCCI’s cosiness with the BJP warms further, if India’s cricketers become longer-term conscripts in their governments’s creepy online claque, and if its Muslim players are further singled out for victimisation? To quote Rihanna: “Why aren’t we talking about this?”
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How can a journalist find the time to write a book every year? Nicholas Coleridge, who has written 12 of them, has an effective 3-step formula.
How can a journalist find the time to write a book every year? Nicholas Coleridge, who has written 12 of them, has an effective 3-step formula.
Exactly 25 years ago, Nicholas Coleridge, then a hot shot manager at Conde Nast publications, wrote a fabulous book called Paper Tigers, on the foibles, fortunes, eccentricities, influence and political manoeuvring of newspaper tycoons.
In India, he met Samir Jain of The Times of India, Ramnath Goenka of The Indian Express, and Aveek Sarkar of The Telegraph, and included them in a 40-page…
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playlist 12.02.17
Claude Speeed Infinity Ultra LP / Sun Czar Temple EP (Planet MU)
CM Von Hausswolff Still Life / Requiem (Touch)
Lost World Band Of Things And Beings (Bandcamp)
Sparks Hippopotamus (BMG)
Fever Ray Plunge (Rabid)
Toi Toi Toi Hollow Earth Hippies (GhostBox)
Pierre Vassiliu Master Serie (Polygram)
deaccssn deaccssn (Bandcamp)
Lee Gamble Mnestic Pressure (Hyperdub)
Robert Haigh Creatures Of The Deep (Unseen Worlds)
M.E.S.H. Hesaitix (Pan)
Hafdis Bjarnadottir Ja (Bandcamp)
Jessica Moss Pools Of Light (Constellation)
Cardiacs The Seaside / On Land and In The Sea (Alphabet Business Concern)
Khôra Dust Remains to Speak (Bandcamp)
Gideon Lewensohn Odradeck (ECM)
#Claude Speeed#playlist#CM Von Hausswolff#Lost World Band#Sparks#Fever Ray#Toi Toi Toi#Pierre Vassiliu#deaccssn#Lee Gamble#Robert Haigh#M.E.S.H.#Hafdis Bjarnadottir#Jessica Moss#Cardiacs#Khôra#Gideon Lewensohn#jg thirlwell#venture bros#archer#foetus#manorexia#steroid maximus#xordox
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One saw, as one rarely does, the chinks of light between what are often casually elided—the Australian cricket team, Cricket Australia and cricket itself, the game and its place in Australian life.
Gideon Haigh, Crossing the Line
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The Indian Premier League (IPL) was increasingly becoming an emblem of the Indian government's apathy and sport's insularity from the raging second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India before it was postponed, said renowned cricket writer Gideon Haigh.
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Certain Admissions by Gideon Haigh
Certain Admissions by well-known Australian cricket journalist and writer Gideon Haigh is one of my favourite true crime reads of recent times. The book was released in 2015 but I finally got around to reading it last week (too many books, too little time!). This book is about John Bryan Kerr, who was subject to one of the most high profile murder cases in Melbourne. At the end of 1949, at age 24, sometime radio announcer and dapper young man Kerr was arrested for the murder of young typist, Beth Williams, 20. A passer-by had stumbled upon Beth’s body at the beach at Albert Park. Her clothes were torn and it appeared as if she’d been strangled. Controversially, an unsigned confession by Kerr was entered into evidence and he stood before three trials because then, capital crimes (murder) needed unanimous decisions from the jury. Kerr was sentenced to death and went to Pentridge Prison where he seemed to adapt to life behind bars as a debater, actor and avid basketballer. However Kerr’s death sentence was commuted and he was released in the mid 1960s. This is where the story, well to me at least, gets really intriguing. On his release Kerr finds it difficult to adjust to life and changes his name to Wallace. Haigh is able to recount, through interviews and research, what life is life for Kerr/Wallace as he tries to hide his past. The description by Haigh of his research process for this book is also intriguing and the Public Records office of Victoria plays a large part in this story because the author was gained unprecedented access to files to dig into the story of Kerr/Wallace, who always maintained his innocence. But the reader will also wonder whether Kerr could have committed the murder… Certain Admissions is top class true crime. Here’s something I wrote about the book last year when I interviewed Gideon Haigh. CRIME & ASSAULT ARE EVERYWHERE TODAYWATCH THE VIDEO BELOW & DEFEND YOURSELF CLICK HERE for More information on theTaser Pulse Black w/Laser
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HarperCollins is proud to announce the official autobiography of one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket
HarperCollins is proud to announce the official autobiography of one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket
SULTAN – A MEMOIR WASIM AKRAM with Gideon Haigh RELEASING IN INDIA ON 22nd December 2022
NEW DELHI, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking – with his electrifying left-arm pace, his explosive striking as a batsman, and his inspirational leadership. For another twenty years, he kept his own counsel about his cricketing days – full of drama,…
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'Pujara is India's centre of gravity, Pant centre of levity' | Cricket News - Times of India
‘Pujara is India’s centre of gravity, Pant centre of levity’ | Cricket News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: Once-in-a-lifetime matches also produce equally memorable sports writing. Columnists across the cricket-playing world went euphoric at India pulling off the impossible at the Gabba on Tuesday. The contribution of Pujara, one of the most under-feted heroes of the triumph, was lauded by Gideon Haigh in The Australian. He pointed out that it was Pujara‘s marathon efforts that “made the…
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'Pujara is India's centre of gravity, Pant centre of levity! | Cricket News
‘Pujara is India’s centre of gravity, Pant centre of levity! | Cricket News
NEW DELHI: Once-in-a-lifetime matches also produce equally memorable sports writing. Columnists across the cricket-playing world went euphoric at India pulling off the impossible at the Gabba on Tuesday. The contribution of Pujara, one of the most under-feted heroes of the triumph, was lauded by Gideon Haigh in The Australian. He pointed out that it was Pujara’s marathon efforts that “made the…
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A 10-minute Australian TV show that gives you a fine understanding of how good Indian domestic cricket is
A 10-minute Australian TV show that gives you a fine understanding of how good Indian domestic cricket is
Nothing succeeds like success in cricket, and India’s series 2-1 win in Australia has led to the kind of soul-searching down under that once used to be the norm for breast-beating back home.
On the Australian TV channel 7 Sport, two of that country’s finest cricket writers Gideon Haigh and Peter Lalor of The Australiannewsp…
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Pujara is India's centre of gravity, Pant centre of levity! | Cricket News - Times of India
Pujara is India’s centre of gravity, Pant centre of levity! | Cricket News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: Once-in-a-lifetime matches also produce equally memorable sports writing. Columnists across the cricket-playing world went euphoric at India pulling off the impossible at the Gabba on Tuesday. The contribution of Pujara, one of the most under-feted heroes of the triumph, was lauded by Gideon Haigh in The Australian. He pointed out that it was Pujara‘s marathon efforts that “made the…
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