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Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious...
Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in
Recipe author Nagi Maehashi, unmoved by her own numbing banality, is peeved. Her target: Penguin books and author Brooke Bellamy.
What a nasty thing it has turned out to be. It involved subversion – Israel’s desire to ignore international tenets
As the world was readying for the Second World War, the insightful humane Austrian author Stefan Zweig made the following
On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist...
On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the
Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the idea of using a reality television...
The latest phase of slaughter and seizure on the part of Israeli forces in Gaza has commenced. Following relentless airstrikes
Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the
Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays. It proves rewarding. It establishes states and reconstitutes others. ...
They seemed made for each other. A former reality television star, with dubious real estate credentials, a freakish alienation from
The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen as something of a turn by the...
Commercial gimmicks are sometimes impossible to beat off. Their stench and pull follows, even as you look the other way.
The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it. It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first...
It has been unedifying, and, it should be said, far from noble. But being unedifying has become something of a
Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populations like livestock into...
The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisionists got to work. If...
The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisionists got
The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen
The murder and starvation of populations in real time, subject to rolling coverage and commentary, is not usually the done
Universities are in a bind. As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very least could, be put into...
Universities are in a bind. As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very
Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice. Killing...
Has the love, or even more so the fixation, gone with the US dollar, that all cushioning reserve currency that
Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice.
It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance...
In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East.“Security...
It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But
In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord
Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting...
Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting
Apparently, he is addicted to it. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, adores using perfume. The variety: Dior Eau Sauvage. Dior states that the...
Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue
The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot. To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering an incentive to identify crimes and...
The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot. To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering
It was a massacre. Fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by personnel from the Israeli Defense Forces in southern Gaza on March...
It was a massacre. Fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by personnel from the Israeli Defense Forces in southern
Europe seems to be suffering paroxysms of withdrawal, notably when it comes to international conventions. Many states on the continent seem to have...
It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The High Court of...
It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The High Court
There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of
There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts. He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza in spectacularly...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts. He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas
The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will succeed the...
Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the
There is much talk in this age of heaving tech behemoths about the digital town square, where views can be
The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your only option. This is proving very much to be the