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The latest incidents of Israeli settler violence in the villages of Qusra and Kour, located in the northern occupied West Bank, have again caught...
Key Takeaways: The self-inflicted passing of Jason Arday this month following his resignation from the University of Cambridge is an
Nothing inspires confidence in the silliness of the human species than its efforts to understand the workings of others. This, at least, makes an...
Key Takeaways It was never really in doubt. The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, irritated, bothered, and keen to throw
That grand old thing is getting on a bit. Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951 has suffered...
Key Takeaways “Politicians,” the vituperative satirist Auberon Waugh observed, “can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can
Key Takeaways: That grand old thing is getting on a bit. Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations
Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the dump....
Key Takeaways: Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries
Key Takeaways: Another trumpeted achievement, another heralded occasion of momentous significance. Or it may be nothing of the sort. US
It is a stew of inedible quality. But eat it we are expected to do. Consider the stomach-churning ingredients. FIFA, an opaque organisation of mafia...
The Israeli embassy in Canberra had warned about it, and, with rattling confidence, thought it appropriate to remind the Australian Labor Party that...
The Israelis had their jaws dropping and dragging on the grounds. The Saudis were cock-a-hoop. The Trump administration remains, as it always does,...
Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had, in the Wing of Zion,...
Key Takeaways: Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime
The naval blockade has become conveniently modish, particularly when it comes to narrow straits of water where heavy international traffic and cargo...
Key Takeaways: The naval blockade has become conveniently modish, particularly when it comes to narrow straits of water where heavy
He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald Trump continued to fixate on the election...
Key Takeaways: It remains a prickly reminder that Australia remains an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests
She has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her lack of erudition, and dismissed as...
Key Takeaways: He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald
Why are they so afraid? The Trump administration, pathologically obsessed about the exaggerated reach of the International Criminal Court, have...
Key Takeaways: She has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her
History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation to be cherished. When it...
Key Takeaways Why are they so afraid? The Trump administration, pathologically obsessed about the exaggerated reach of the International Criminal
Let the mockery and disdain begin. The elected member of the Essex seat of Clacton, also leader of the populist Reform UK party, has decided to avoid...
Words can function as prisons and windows. They can cage meaning and suffocate understanding. They can also reveal concepts which breathtaking...
Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired; airstrikes initiated....
Key Takeaways: It was a distasteful affair, but Australian politicians have become accustomed to those toadying practices that accompany capitulations
Nigel Farage is not a picture of happiness. As Britain’s version of Trumpism (only a version, never a facsimile), the leader of Reform UK had been...
Key Takeaways Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired;...
Key Takeaways Nigel Farage is not a picture of happiness. As Britain’s version of Trumpism (only a version, never a
In the annals of policy, strategy and budgeting, the AUKUS pact comprising Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States will be seen as one of...
When something is not working, abandon it. The policymaker and politician, the latter often inclined to populist temptation and the endless tapping...
The justice system of the United Kingdom, represented by stout cathedral structures and solemn rituals, tends to resemble a casino
Former US national security advisor John Bolton and President Donald J. Trump share traits neither probably knew they had. The latter, for one, is far...
It is one of the most remarkable ways to fall from grace. Leading British Labour to a deceptively crushing victory over diddling, muddling, decrepit...
The obsession, one verging on pathological, with political parties is producing its share of symptoms. These include, amongst others, cynicism,
When something is not working, abandon it. The policy maker and politician, the latter often inclined to populist temptation and
Former US national security advisor John Bolton and the President Donald J. Trump share traits neither probably knew they had.
Pauline Hanson has been a fixture of Australian politics since 1996, when she appeared with piercing, shrill bravado as the federal member for Oxley,...
Pauline Hanson has been a fixture of Australian politics since 1996, when she appeared with piercing, shrill bravado as the
Let us, if only briefly, give thanks for the peacemakers, whatever their poor qualifications and whatever folly drove them to war in the first place....
The FIFA Men’s World Cup of 2026 was always going to offer visitors and spectators something different. Shared between three countries – Mexico,...
Waxworks have nothing to say, but when incarnated in the form of former Fox News anchor and, at a pinch, “personality”, Pete Hegseth proves to be...
Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, that most draining, useless and even pernicious of security pacts, Australia has been the only country...
Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza...
One can never accuse the Australian political palette of being too demanding, let alone attentive. When it comes to matters of defence, that palette...
These are always occasions of anticipation and even celebration for the tinfoil hatters and those keen to spot the internal plot, the thriving fifth...
While eyes remain peeled on Israel’s increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is...
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