David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I like the concept but the design leaves a bit to be desired. Why wouldn't Park Street be pedestrianised? 010
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026If it was a US car, it would be called The Sun Also Rises. 100
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Good sleuthing! Here's another puzzle. How to square William Golding's apparent almost win in 1979 with the fact that Darkness Visible wasn't even on the shortlist. 100
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If an electoral system has a winner's bonus, then it's not fully proportional. That's akin to a fully vegan breakfast with a side of bacon. www.bbc.com/news/article... 000
Reposted by David WalshJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Love what the Australian soccer team says about modern Australia. Seriously, watch this video, and you'll be cheering for them too. 321031307
Reposted by David WalshBassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer 130198264938
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Good list! Here's mine: 1. The Remains of the Day 2. True History of the Kelly Gang 3. The Blind Assassin 4. Disgrace 5. In a Free State 6. The Promise 7. Bring Up the Bodies 8. Wolf Hall 9. The Siege of Krishnapur 10. Flesh Albeit there are three I'm yet to read. 010
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Malcolm Knox begins this op-ed piece with an unwitting confession to carbrain. No Malcolm, drivers don't deserve a special acknowledgment for not running over a pedestrian. Even if that pedestrian is Tony Abbott. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... 201
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Yeah. Princip was a Serbian nationalist, not an anti-monarchist. 010
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Hilarious thing to say about The Hundred Years War. (Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror) 030
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026You could say it was partisan. But the partisanship was north/south rather than Democrat/Republican. 020
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Bugbear of mine: why are you using an app when Wikipedia has a perfectly usually mobile website? 000
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026[Late 20th century government who have long ceased building public transport and walkable neighborhoods]: Why don't you just walk or take public transport? 120
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026When simping for a war criminal is just a minor disagreement between friends. 020
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Japanese internment did not end until after FDR's death. He cannot possibly have expressed regret for the policy. 160
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026What documentary? When did he say this? You make it sound like FDR was reflecting back on his time as president. He died in office. 260
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I like that the name of the new Hungarian Prime Minister is Peter Magyar. It would be like if our PM was named Anthony Australian. 010
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026One reviewer cliche I find annoying is when a work of non-fiction is described as "reads like a novel". But this combination of cliffhanger chapter ending and new chapter heading is ace from @medievalrevolt.bsky.social in House of Lilies. 252
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Interesting list! I own the first five. (A couple of which I've even read...) Stanley Middleton's Holiday would fit here too. One of those underrated gems of the Booker canon. 100
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Is it weird that he's the same age as his former opponent's husband? 000
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Who was the last first termer to create a by-election? I'd guess Graham Annesley in Miranda. 100
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The second season of The Night Manager owes more to Ian Fleming than it does to Le Carré. 010
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Ian McEwan appealing to my old prejudices as a science/engineering student. 030
Reposted by David WalshBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example. 158147563541
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 12/12/2025I'm more concerned with his treatment of the book than his treatment of the author's name. 000
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Plokhy churns out scholarly non-fiction at the pace of an airport novelist. 110
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Ravens' fixture was front loaded with division winners. 010
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Historical fiction should include historical figures, or at least historical events. Being merely set in the past doesn't qualify. 120
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Does the model think the clock keeps ticking after a 4th down stop? 110
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Oh wait, there's a Harry Potter book in there. It's the series fourth but the century's first. 000
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025I had in mind Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels when I posted the above. ☝️ Thinking about it more, it would also explain the absence of any George RR Martin books. 100
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025(But what would that mean for series that span the turn of the century?) 100
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Perhaps fans of those series held back from nominating the same types of books. More likely they were deliberately excluded (or combined). If so, a good thing. Less discussion about the same books and more variety on the list. 100
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025My Brilliant Friend (27) is known less as a stand alone novel than for being the first in the Neapolitan Quartet. The Hunger Games (26), The Thursday Murder Club (36), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (52) are each the first in a series of books. 100
David Walsh @dlwalsh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025It's actually a pretty good list. (I'm annoyed I forgot to vote...) One thing I'm curious about is the absence of sequels. Wolf Hall makes the top 10. But the equally good (and equally Booker winning) Bring Up the Bodies is nowhere to be seen. 100
![Facebook post by former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott.
Highlighted text: "He [Orban] and I differed on Ukraine"
Full text: "Viktor Orbán has been a very consequential PM - probably the most consequential Hungary has ever had. The economy has strengthened, the city of Budapest has been transformed, and Hungary’s family policies and determination to keep its culture have been studied around the world. He and I differed on Ukraine but I thought he was dead right to defy the EU, on illegal immigration especially. Why should a sovereign nation be bullied by Brussels into policies that would jeopardise its future as a distinct people? Under Orbán, Budapest became something of a haven for conservative intellectuals. This has been a significant point of soft power for Hungary and I don’t expect the new government will want that to change."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kwnklx7xzszmk2srgibvwrhz/bafkreihtiqa5hzvguorewgams3mimqdlnuq54q6znpvjwlu6stz4jo5nre)
