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How nuzzling a bum enlightened Flume

April 16, 2020 by Tom McCarthy

Flume aka Harley Streten, the music producer

If you’re anything like me, isolation has led to a much wider casting of the net for stimulating content. I’ve even ventured into the shark-infested waters of Twitter, where all-comers feel totally uninhibited to share titillating ideas, claims and accusations. Most of which are wildly unsubstantiated. And so should probably be taken more in the […]

Finding faith in the modern world

April 8, 2020 by Tom McCarthy

Kanye performing in Houston jail

COVID-19 has caused many crises of faith: our faith in social norms and common decency (fights over toilet paper come to mind); in the economy; and in international commerce and travel – ideas that we took for granted have been rudely and perhaps indelibly undermined. But despite all this – and despite the health crisis; […]

The upside of being shocked to the core

March 31, 2020 by Tom McCarthy

The beauty about a non-fiction book – versus a news segment, documentary or even a podcast series – is that it has almost unlimited ability to explore the nuts and bolts behind what we end up seeing in news headlines. We learn about crucial characters, circumstances and preceding events, without which the main story would […]

Finding relief from the invisible enemy, the Australian way

March 24, 2020 by Tom McCarthy

We’ve all seen, and probably ourselves indulged in, the dark art of passive aggressiveness. Where we attempt to minimise our underlying state of aggression by refusing to break polite custom, and instead convey our disapproval through laconic participation: subtle facial expressions, expertly timed groans and heavy breathing. I think we may have found its closest […]

Finding purpose in chaos

March 19, 2020 by Tom McCarthy

Perhaps the greatest challenge presented by this virus is the rate at which the prevailing circumstances change. Humans might be extremely adaptable, but that doesn’t mean we like it. For the past week or two, it feels like every few hours I’m required to accept as part of my norm a new and otherwise extraordinarily […]

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Tom McCarthy, through Mr Double Speaker, is discovering his voice in a less intermediated way – the century old format of blogging.

Averse to labels (including writer, lawyer and retail business-owner) and scared of being pigeon-holed, might he find solace through blurring the lines of writer, editor and publisher? Or will this bastardised model prove too powerful?

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