I can't click the heart for this - it is so outrageous and I'm sorry you had to endure such treatment.

I agree - it is baffling what he is allowed to get away with e.g. suing for defamation when he daily defames people.

Never forget he was created almost entirely by @nytimes.com

Almost nothing @nytimes.com now publishes has any serious meaning! Every day it finds a new way to insult, demean, or alienate its traditional audience. The attributes that made it a global leader in journalism are vanishing before our eyes.

EXACTLY - absolutely an enemy of anything progressive.

Chris Minns showing his true colours - he defends the police decision to allow the neo-nazis to demonstrate and then offers a state funeral to Laws who consistently undermined the Labor party and led the media charge to demonise the unemployed and anyone receiving welfare support.

A state funeral for cash-for-comment John Laws would be a celebration of corruption.

I didn't say anything about it being a profession! My point is simply that assessing a song as a songwriter and musician is a different perspective, which might explain the wide range of responses to Imagine. Any advanced technical understanding of a subject gives people different perspectives.

I agree, but a musician/songwriter has a completely different perspective on what constitutes a good song, and popularity might not be the most essential criteria - at least for them.

Interesting to focus on meaning rather than music - one critic (among many) said it "features a syrupy melody, a cloying piano line, none of the startling chord or time changes that distinguished Lennon’s great Beatles songs, and no memorable hook". Maybe the framing of critique is important?

He loves acting in his self-written, self-directed drama

Hard to believe they've just discovered the scandal and corruption associated with this policy when it's been going on for more than 30 years and plenty of people have gone to the media with evidence.
What's the real agenda?