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3 weeks ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Graham L. Bradley |Daryl McCann |Andrew Cusack |Roger Franklin
Three years of Russia’s military failures in Ukraine have inspired quiet doubts in Beijing. So how solid is that relationship? Mar 30 20255 minsTrump continues to play a double game with Russia and Ukraine.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Anthony Daniels |Michael Cross |Graham L. Bradley |Michael Connor
Labour’s nip-and-tuck on the remaining peers ignores Blackstonian theory in the same way as did Oliver Cromwell’s Commons Mar 18 2025 12 mins The sad truth is that old fashioned graft holds the moral advantage on, say, your typical conference of rent-seeking climateers Mar 18 2025 7 mins Navalny's return to Russia and near-certain death was a fate he embraced in the fervent belief change was possible and would ultimately triumph Mar 17 2025 4 mins A delusion is defined as a fixed false belief...
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
quadrant.org.au | John Whitehall |Kara Thomas |Graham L. Bradley |Timothy Cootes
The dramatic erosion of trust in Australia's medical institutions reflects a profound crisis in healthcare.
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Graham L. Bradley |Timothy Cootes |Roger Franklin |Gary Johns
For all his quirks, this modern Edison is, above all, a disrupter, a man in a hurry to remake human destiny and his nation Jan 10 2025 7 mins Studying International Relations -- wokeness, Western masochism, antipathy for one’s nation -- is no conservative’s idea of a good time Jan 10 2025 9 mins Best of the Web: January 10, 2025: Allison Pearson on […] Jan 09 2025 2 mins If Hillbilly Elegy was compulsory reading for observers of American politics wanting to understand Trump’s first...
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Anthony Daniels |Kara Thomas |Graham L. Bradley
How long before the right to die becomes the duty to die and the elderly are being officially reminded not to be a burden? Jan 11 20257 minsThe dramatic erosion of trust in Australia's medical institutions reflects a profound crisis in healthcare.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
upstreamreviews.substack.com | Graham L. Bradley
An organized crime hit mixed with flagrant insurance fraud in a fantasy/distant-future setting, with a pair of buddy-cop protagonists leading the way. Indrajit is a gambler with a drinking problem, or maybe the other way around. Either way he's run out of luck with both hobbies and finds himself in a tight spot. Then a shady benefactor appears and covers his tab at the local bar, then hires him to carry out a protection contract on a local celebrity singer.
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May 29, 2024 | 
upstreamreviews.substack.com | Graham L. Bradley
The Venn Diagram of computer hackers and fantasy geeks has a LOT of overlap, so here's a story about a guy who uses his hacking skills to become an actual wizard in the Middle Ages, almost by accident. The thing is, he's definitely not the first one to figure out how... You have probably seen some of Scott Meyer's webtoons over at www.basicinstructions.net. He brings that same level of dry humor and quick wit to his debut novel series in OFF TO BE THE WIZARD.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
upstreamreviews.substack.com | Graham L. Bradley
In the age of Martin and Rothfuss, when three inch-thick fantasy novels have kicked off a series that will never be finished, it’s commendable to find an author who runs headlong against the odds and comes off conqueror, selling heaps and heaps of thousand-page tomes. Christopher Ruocchio has not only achieved this, and achieved it at a young age, he has done so consistently since his debut in 2018 with EMPIRE OF SILENCE.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
upstreamreviews.substack.com | Graham L. Bradley
Won’t lie to you, dear reader: about 20% of the way through this book I was getting chest pains, because Tim Akers wrote a story that was quite similar to one I have been working on. Things like “I really hope [X] doesn’t happen now…” or “Crap, did he just use [Y] for the worldbuilding?” crossed my mind. I almost wished in the end that it wouldn’t be good. Fortunately it walks its own path, and I enjoyed the road that it took to get there. This is new-era epic fantasy doing good things in the genre.
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May 5, 2023 | 
upstreamreviews.substack.com | Graham L. Bradley
There’s an old parable that writers use to create an engaging story, using a protagonist and a tree as the central elements: at the beginning of your story, you have (let’s say) a boy and a tree. Before you get too far into the book, the boy should climb the tree. By the second act he’s stuck in the tree, and you start to throw rocks at him. By the start of the third act, you’re lighting the tree on fire.
