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19.05 28 Apr 2021 Every Wednesday on the Hard Shoulder, we bring you The Last Post - where we hear about the life of someone who has recently died but you have probably never heard of... Today, John Kelleher told us all about Australian seafarer Peter Warner, who rescued six shipwrecked boys from Tonga, who had survived for eighteen months on a desert island in the South Pacific. Picture: Peter Warner (third left) with his crew: David, John, Luke, Bill, Stephen, Jim, Kolo and Mano in 1968. Photograph: John Raymond/Fairfax Media

Cold War, Hard and Soft A cold war has hard and soft components, like an egg or the SAT. Last night the Oscars were a stark reminder the U.S. is winning the soft-power part of the war. The hard part could be a much different story. “Nomadland,” a very good, very depressing movie about premature retirees living in vans, won best picture. Its director, Chloé Zhao, a Chinese national, won best director. (Frances McDormand, a national treasure, won best actress for her part in the movie. Also, if you didn’t find the movie quite depressing enough, please read Jessica Bruder’s very good b...

Peter Warner, sailor who rescued Tongan schoolboys stranded on a Pacific island – obituary Unlike Lord of the Flies, the story of savagery to which the case was compared, the Tongan boys showed friendship and resourcefulness Warner, 1967 Credit: Stuart William MacGladrie/Fairfax Media via Getty Peter Warner, who has died in a boating accident aged 90, was an Australian sailor who made headlines around the world after rescuing six Tongan schoolboys who had been marooned on a remote Pacific island for more than a year. The story, widely compared to that of Lord of the Flies, William Golding�...

From Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping A former Beijing bureau chief shares insights from her time in China. Souvenir plates featuring the current Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, and late Communist leader Mao Zedong in Beijing.Credit...Greg Baker/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images , who grew up in Australia and covered China for The New York Times from 2012 to 2019. Her first visit to the country was in 1966 as a university student, and she described her experience spanning the decades in an essay for a new book, Here is an excerpt from her essay, “Father and Son.” Xiaolu was different from the re...

Peter Warner, Sailor Who Rescued Shipwrecked Tongan Teens, Dies After He's Swept Overboard at Sea People 1 hr ago © Provided by People Stuart William MacGladrie/Fairfax Media via Getty Peter Warner, an Australian sailor best known for rescuing six shipwrecked Tongan teens back in 1966, has reportedly died. He was 90. Warner died on April 13 in Ballina, New South Wales, and his death was confirmed by his daughter, Janet Warner, according to Janet told the outlet that her father was sailing near the mouth of the Richmond River when he was swept overboard by a wave. Another traveler on the...