Thinking of Linking

This week I have been mostly reading...

Australia:
What the Gregs (Sheridan and Hunt) don’t get about emissions abatement

Politics and the Australian language

A study has found refugee resettlement added $40 million to a struggling rural Victorian town's economy

Forced retirement can be a waste of wisdom

Geoff Lemon on Scott McIntyre

The Australian Consensus Centre: what are the costs and benefits to UWA?

Sacked for speaking your mind? Don't expect the free speech brigade to help 

Greens become the very thing they rebelled against

The Oligarchs Won The Mining Boom

Labor claims Joe Hockey 'verballed his department' over jobs threat warning in question time

Renewable energy target: Liberal MP Dan Tehan urges Greg Hunt and Labor to end impasse

So you wanna be a ministerial staffer

Our Constitutionally Implied Freedom of Political Communication – More powerful than the right to free speech

Negative gearing's social carnage on low-income earners

The best of times, the worst of times

Razer on #IStandForMercy and selfie-activism

US:
The Battle for New Orleans The Big Easy goes hard-core to combat blight. But can that save the Lower Ninth Ward?

Strong winds knock over a train in Jefferson Parish

Reconciled to Hillary

Texas calls off Robert Pruett execution with just hours to spare

Baltimore crowds celebrate tough charges against police

Senior US government official describes looting as a transition to freedom. Oh, did you think it was some leftie talking about Baltimore in 2015? No, it was Donald Rumsfeld talking about Baghdad in 2003.

UK:

How the UK's Electoral System may disadvantage the Conservatives on 7 May

Bill Oddie remembers the radio comedy that inspired Monty Python

Labour not responsible for crash, says former Bank of England governor 

World:
Israel and Republicans wrong to oppose Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran

Refugees don’t need our tears. They need us to stop making them refugees

Nigerian army 'rescues 200 girls and 93 women' in strike against Boko Haram 

Who were the eight people executed by Indonesia?

Indonesia murdered eight people. The time for being polite is over 

'Am I being executed?' Brazilian killed by Indonesia unaware until end, says priest

Why Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran never stood a chance

Bali 9 executions: Waleed Aly on the five ways Chan and Sukumaran were let down

Joko Widodo's sanctioning of executions a sign of his weakness

Widodo’s Desperate Executions

Inside the fight to save Bali Nine's Chan and Sukumaran

PNoy should not take credit for Veloso reprieve

Media:

Reporting from the battlefield: a former correspondent's tale of recovery from PTSD

Broadcaster sacked for anti-ANZAC Day tweets

Tory Maguire appointed Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost Australia

Expecting the unexpected

Bali 9 and the #hash reality about slacktivism

Barrie Cassidy queers the pitch

Music:
Henry Rollins: The Major Labels Are Screwing Up Record Store Day

Literature:
Adrian Mole and me: how this 1980s icon nailed the politics of the era Tom Watson

Society:
We can identify men at risk of committing sex crimes, but will we help them take responsibility? 

Science:
Sexist peer review elicits furious Twitter response, PLOS apology - Seriously??

Tech:
With How Old Do I Look?, Microsoft is harvesting thousands of faces. Uh, isn't that creepy? 

Clickbait of the week:
Every Question In Every Q&A Session Ever

The least boring photo on my camera roll: