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Former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd (Image: AAP/Glenn Hunt) Keep the Rudd flag flying Achieving a brutal victory against a sitting Liberal prime minister like it's 2007 or something, Kevin Rudd was reported yesterday to have been the major impetus behind the delivery of millions of Pfizer vaccine doses last week -- not our absentee prime minister. This follows botched negotiations early in the year, with Australia apparently having displayed a "rude, dismissive and penny-pinching" approach to the process. Of course, there is something vaguely mafia-donnish about Pfizer's conduct here, off...

Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire and Europe correspondent Bevan Shields discuss how Britain is combining national mourning with a COVID lockdown.

Pictures of Prince Philip feature on newspapers across the globe after the death of the duke aged 99 on Friday. The Queen announced the death “with great sorrow”, with many papers reflecting on the service Philip provided during his lifetime. Under the headline “a life of service to Queen and country”, the Daily Telegraph’s leader column speaks of “someone who through his support for the Crown made a lasting contribution to the institution of monarchy and to the nation in his own right”. It added: “The Duke was often caricatured by republican detractors as gaffe-prone and old-...

At an online symposium this week, two former leaders of the Berkshire Museum â€” Van Shields, its executive director, and Elizabeth McGraw, its board chair â€” are scheduled to discuss the institution's sale of art in 2018.  EAGLE FILE PHOTO PITTSFIELD — Though Van Shields and Elizabeth McGraw no longer are with the Berkshire Museum, they will reunite this week to explain the museum’s drive to sell its most valuable art a few years back. People who opposed that sale may or may not be heard. Shields and McGraw will appear Thursday as members ...

POLICY FORUM The long road to recovery Democracy Sausage Extra , Europe correspondent Bevan Shields and COO of Atalanta Elizabeth Ames join Mark Kenny to discuss the status of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, the unfolding royal family train wreck, and Mathias Cormann’s bid to become OECD head. With small freedoms set to return and the COVID-19 vaccine rollout well under way, the British Government has set 21 June as the earliest date the country will see all restrictions on social contact lifted. But is that timeline realistic? What’s the state of the British economy? And how has Oprah Wi...