Welcome to Bernard Keane’s Side View, a curated guide to new and overlooked content on politics, policy, and public affairs. This week, I have mostly been reading about Texas power failures, Polish Holocaust denialism, the possibility of victory for the Taliban and, just for some light relief, putting guns on robot dogs.
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS…?
The fallout from the failure of the Texas power grid continues — and Australia gets a bit part (as an Australian media worker I am duty-bound to find any and all even tangential local angles to any overseas story — it’s a contractual thing).
The origin of the catastrophe here; the fury the absurd billing practices of Texan electricity retailers provokes is here; how Macquarie Bank has done very well out of Texas; how climate denialists and the far-right are lying about the failure (gee, sounds familiar) and what journalists could do about it (if they, like, cared).
And just for change of pace: how failures in Texan law enforcement mean serial killers have been operating with impunity.
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