Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 25/03/2025My take from last night’s budget coverage on the fiscal big picture after a full term of Labor budgets. 020 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Lot of very cursed ads kicking around on The Other Website these days, but this gentleman wants to make sure you're familiar with your major thirds and minor sixths. 030 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Labor's candidate for Leichhardt doubling down on The Repacholi Stratagem (preselect Big Units). Could be a game changer. 171 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Another year passes and I remain irredeemably shithouse at present wrapping. Measuring, cutting, shaping, taping, one unmitigated nightmare. 2/3 look fine but conceal mangled horrors within. Merry Christmas. 050 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Magnificent cultural artefact this. Not a lick of anything even slightly left of field, every choice somehow more mainstream than the last. And yet you can’t deny they are, indeed, bangers and you’d be singing along unselfconsciously. If that isn’t Warnie. 73913 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 17/12/20248/ The Possessed (Elif Batuman) - this has been sitting on my shelf for years. Adored her novel The Idiot which was a Russian lit spoof/homage. This is a Russian lit guid and looks hilarious. 100 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 17/12/20247/ Power Without Glory (Frank Hardy) - bit ashamed that I have never read this Australian (and specifically Melburnian) political classic. High time. 250 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 17/12/20246/ The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order (Gary Gerstle) - more postwar history. Normally allergic to the word neoliberal (on account of vagueness) but have heard this is excellent. Pretty sure it was on a @bevansadvocate.bsky.social list. 210 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 17/12/20245/ India After Gandhi (Ramachandran Guha) - read the first few chapters earlier this year. Love a good 'magisterial' vibe. This one super readable and detailed, fills a gap that has been missing for English-language Indian history. 120 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 17/12/20244/ Postwar (Tony Judt) - been on my shelf and list for a couple of years now on @benjamin-clark.bsky.social's rec. Am a postwar history nut, keen to cross this off. 640 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 17/12/20243/ Bigger Government (Marc Robinson) - A second go after a partial read earlier this year. Like an intergenerational report but global and with razor sharp policy insight. Killer section on health cost drivers. 110 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 17/12/20242/ Minority Report (George Megalogenis) - No elaboration required. Big George Mega guy but have heard mixed reviews. Will demolish one afternoon. 220 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 17/12/20241/ Creation Lake (Rachel Kushner) - Looks a treat. Quote on the back claims it is Kill Bill written by Le Carre. 100 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 14/12/2024There’s a strange and serene beauty to some of these. Why are they… so moving? 2213 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Andrew Leigh announcing that donations under $2 can be tax deductible if you keep the receipt, which in the nicest possible way is something that only Andrew Leigh would actually bother to do. 1174 0
Tom Crowley @tomiscrowley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024You’ll never guess what the financing system is 3165 0
