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The world according to Bob

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

The Year It All Fell Down Bob Ellis

Penguin, pp.264, $29.99, ISBN: 978067077410

Apparently, Ellis believes that the year 2011 was as important as 1848. He never explains why, exactly. He seems to think that we should just take his word for it, since he is, after all, Bob Ellis.

It’s not that nothing happened in 2011. There were significant events, ranging from the Arab Spring to the Fukushima meltdown to the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.

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