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The very latest from the PNG Courier's overseas correspondent.

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January 17, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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“Some pockets of finance now make no distinction between illusion and reality; everyone in those pockets is looking for social approval, and finding it; and what matters above all is not substance but glittering appearance.”

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In the 1630s, Adriaen Pauw was the closest thing Holland had to a prime minister; he was also fabulously wealthy. To display his wealth and good taste, Pauw commissioned a tulip garden filled with …
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January 9, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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I was always unimpressed by the way the Viet Nam was bad because Americans were being killed in it and nothing else.
Currently thinking about that legendary Frankie Boyle bit about the US military and how they will not only invade your country and kill all of your people but then they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad
January 4, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Darren Grimes isn’t governing Durham.
He’s haunting it

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Darren Grimes isn’t governing Durham.
He’s haunting it.™©2025
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January 3, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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I am by no means an Andreas Malm fanboy, but these two are among the best works on the climate crisis I’ve read (and also: @versobooks.bsky.social is pubbing the best climate books out there these days).
December 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Life really does come at you fast when you're Liz Truss
December 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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‘Walter Lippmann did recognise the increasing capacity of people to select their own facts, a trend which faces us with a large question. As Arnold-Forster puts it: “If lying journalism defined the public sphere, was democracy really free?”’

Andrew O’Hagan:

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Andrew O’Hagan · Fatal Realism: Walter Lippmann’s Warning
People reading newspapers, Lippmann observed, were not offended by stories of unfairness and corruption, they were...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM