Are We Finally Getting Somewhere With Paywalls?

August 18, 2018

Welcome to Best of the Week, kicked off in the departure lounge at Changi Airport, given a loving polish during the wee small hours on QF52, and wrapped up in the domestic lounge in Brisbane.

Today’s writing soundtrack: Apple’s Essential Dire Straits playlist. As the late Douglas Adams argued in his increasingly inaccurately-named trilogy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: “Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.”