by NRB | 13 Jun 2024 | Non-fiction |
Geoffrey Robertson argues that the United Nations needs to establish a new court in order to bring Vladimir Putin to justice. Geoffrey Robertson is an internationally renowned lawyer specialising in human rights, and is a champion of the role of the courts in...
by NRB | 29 Jun 2021 | Non-fiction |
Save Our Sons and Radicals remind us that the anti-war protesters of the 1960s and 70s were many and varied, and so too were their campaigns. These two books canvass the decade 1965-75, during which the Vietnam War dominated political life in Australia. We had...
by NRB | 1 Jun 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’ve been listening to memoirs by people who attended what Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister referred to as ‘both universities’ – that is, Oxford and Cambridge. Geoffrey Robertson, Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens have all made their marks and, in different degrees,...
by NRB | 18 May 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and to be loved. – George Sand All You Need Is Love. – Lennon and McCartney When two people come together untrammelled, with no baggage, as it were – no romantic attachments to other persons, no guilt – it...
by NRB | 10 May 2018 | Non-fiction |
Robertson is on the right side of history and morality. Surely he can’t be that good, that funny? The title of Geoffrey Robertson’s memoir was inspired by the comment of a senior British public servant when a Blair-government minister intended to...