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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...
When the establishment journalism of Nicholas Kristof of that most establishment of papers, The New York Times, draws the ire of a foreign regime, and...
Revealing a steely yet erratic contempt of the law, the US Department of Justice is showing, again, how it became the spear carrier for kooky ideas...
It has been a sorry though predictable exercise. When he lived up (or down) to expectations of atrocious conduct befitting the proud bigot that he is,...
A needless, extravagant ballroom. Questionable gifts, not least the 747-200B aircraft from the Qatari government. An inane decision to add a blue...
They are a disagreeable bunch, with disagreeable ideas to match. The querulous brats behind the drive for technological servility and plugged in...
When dealing with the disorganised criminal outfit that is FIFA (the mafia comparison only goes so far), the titan governing body of world football,...
Cartel members are not always a congenial bunch. Relations can get frosty and brittle over time. With the United Arab Emirates, membership of the...
When dealing with the disorganised criminal outfit that is FIFA (the mafia comparison only goes so far), the titan governing
They make you do it – they, in this case, being the folly-fouled leaders of educational institutions – because it’s all in the name of...
Being very much the all-American figure that he was, the passing of Ted Turner was bound to enliven the cliché machine with the usual, clotty...
The jury at the Venice Biennale Art Exhibition have outdone themselves. Few juries at any art or literary festival can be trusted at the best of...
Louts pressing false claims, faux principled types seeking to score successes against clearly useless targets. Jules Hurst, in trying to discharge the...
Louts pressing false claims, faux principled types seeking to score successes against clearly useless targets. Jules Hurst, in trying to
Not much good comes from war. Qualifying exceptions, however, can be found. The United Nations, tarnished, libelled and mocked for being...
They have kept their strategy of cultural and institutional vandalism generously broad in recent campaigns against their adversaries. It therefore...
The Earth is in a fine mess, but human beings sealed in laboratories full of energy and vigour, attached to screens, and running tests about...
The Earth is in a fine mess, but human beings sealed in laboratories full of energy and vigour, attached to
Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the...
Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination.
Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the...
Be wary of a company – any company – who exerts moral muscle as they create software and digital platforms that are injurious and simultaneously...
Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and
There are an easy bunch to demonise, and to a certain extent, they should be. The God Chef, the collector of Michelin stars; the veteran of the...
They are an easy bunch to demonise, and to a certain extent, they should be. The God Chef, the collector
In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. The Israeli version of a ceasefire...
He’s out of ideas, a mind running on empty. Increasingly, he is also short of reason, zapped by geopolitical addling and meddling. Now that US...
Last month, the United Nations General Assembly was unimpeachably correct in condemning the hideous practice of slavery in a resolution endorsed by...
The problem with demagogues is that they invariably fall into infantile practices. The politics of the playground is the politics
It was celebrated with ghoulish delight. On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed the Penal Bill (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists), an...
Last month, the United Nations General Assembly was unimpeachably correct in condemning the hideous practice of slavery in a resolution
With the Iran War groaning along, the Trump administration is getting increasingly indignant. Plumes of childish anger can be seen coming out of the...
Global crisis and human suffering can sometimes be susceptible to the cheap loop of sloganeering and mawkish publicity, often associated
It was celebrated with ghoulish delight. On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed the Penal Bill (Amendment – Death Penalty
With the Iran War groaning along, the Trump administration is getting increasingly indignant. Plumes of childish anger can be seen
Truth may well be the first casualty of war, but death, injury and environmental degradation are bound to be keeping up in the hit lists. Attacks on...
On March 20, 2026, US District Senior Judge Paul Friedman found for The New York Times in a ruling deeming
When will Israel realise that invading Lebanon with paralytic compulsion can never be the solution to its security ills? Having destroyed Gaza with...
Truth may well be the first casualty of war, but death, injury and environmental degradation are bound to be keeping
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