Posts Tagged “2025”
Bazball's back: The Down Under edition
A few years ago, I wrote about Bazball, the radical English cricketing approach that had led to victory after victory. It was about to face its greatest test - an Ashes series against the old enemy, Australia, who also happened to be the newly crowned World Test Champions.
The result was a drawn series - the previously unstoppable Bazball machine didn’t wilt, but nor was it able to consistently dominate. Australia retained the Ashes, and England vowed to regroup and prepare for a successful Australian campaign. Well, now they’re here on Australian soil, with the first Test starting tomorrow.
The lure of nuclear power
Here in Australia we have an election tomorrow, and one of the things the Coalition has promised as part of their energy plan is nuclear power. We’re told 19 out of 20 major nations either already use nuclear power or are building that capacity, so we’re the odd ones out. Nuclear is going to solve all our problems.
The perils of incumbency
Last year when I was in Sydney, I visited the State Library of NSW, and they had a collection of Australian political cartoons from the last 120 years. Some of them were funny, while others would probably have been more funny if I actually understood their political context. But there was one from our last election that particularly caught my eye.
The first 1% of 2025
A New Year began, so I wanted a quick and easy New Year’s post, suitable for a snappy beginning to 2025. Clearly, since it’s now the end of January, this didn’t happen. I made a start on this post, sure, then got busy actually living life rather than writing about it.
Better late than never, though: Here are some new year’s thoughts, and a selection of photos from the first 1% of the year. Or at least, the first four days.