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Addressing Hate Speech And Incitement: Holding Meta Accountable In Africa – OpEd

Addressing Hate Speech And Incitement: Holding Meta Accountable In Africa – OpEd

It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook.  The High Court

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Secrecy And Virtue Signalling: Another View Of Signalgate – OpEd

Secrecy And Virtue Signalling: Another View Of Signalgate – OpEd

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of

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Secrecy and Virtue Signalling: Another View of Signalgate

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The...

02.04.2025 50

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Netanyahu’s War on Israeli Institutions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts.  He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza in spectacularly...

01.04.2025 10

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Authoritarian Politics: Netanyahu’s War On Israeli Institutions – OpEd

Authoritarian Politics: Netanyahu’s War On Israeli Institutions – OpEd

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts.  He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas

28.03.2025 2

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Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding and the IOC

The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will succeed the...

26.03.2025 20

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Trump’s Star Wars Revival: The Golden Dome Antimissile Fantasy – OpEd

Trump’s Star Wars Revival: The Golden Dome Antimissile Fantasy – OpEd

Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the

26.03.2025 5

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Careless People, Meta And Restricting The Digital Town Square – OpEd

Careless People, Meta And Restricting The Digital Town Square – OpEd

There is much talk in this age of heaving tech behemoths about the digital town square, where views can be

24.03.2025 9

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Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding And The IOC – OpEd

Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding And The IOC – OpEd

The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will

24.03.2025 4

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Back To Tried Failures: The New Offensive On Gaza – OpEd

Back To Tried Failures: The New Offensive On Gaza – OpEd

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your only option.  This is proving very much to be the

21.03.2025 7

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The Trauma Will Be Instagrammed: Wombat Handlings Down Under

The influencer might be defined as a modern, junked cretin of arrested moral and ethical capacity – with specific skills. Such an individual, for...

20.03.2025 6

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The Script of Anxiety: Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination

With the Ukraine War and the retreat of the United States from what has routinely been called Europe’s security architecture, states are galloping...

19.03.2025 20

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The Trauma Will Be Instagrammed: Wombat Handlings Down Under – OpEd

The Trauma Will Be Instagrammed: Wombat Handlings Down Under – OpEd

The influencer might be defined as a modern, junked cretin of arrested moral and ethical capacity – with specific skills. 

19.03.2025 9

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The Script Of Anxiety: Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination – OpEd

The Script Of Anxiety: Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination – OpEd

With the Ukraine War and the retreat of the United States from what has routinely been called Europe’s security architecture,

17.03.2025 3

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Sporting Contradictions: Athletes, the Olympics and Climate Change

The time has come for arguably the sporting world’s most famous mafia organisation to select its new chief.  The various turf-conscious...

17.03.2025 10

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Sporting Contradictions: Athletes, The Olympics And Climate Change – OpEd

The time has come for arguably the sporting world’s most famous mafia organisation to select its new chief.  The various

16.03.2025 5

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Militarizing Europe: The EU Defense Spending Bug – OpEd

We live in dangerous times, and politicians are happy to be cheerleaders of that supposed fact.  They do not care

14.03.2025 10

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Aggrieved Speculation: The Trump Illness Hypothesis

The critics are utterly beside themselves in trying to understand the bruising odds and turns of Donald J. Trump, the reality showman and business...

13.03.2025 10

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More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer’s Defence Spending Splash

The urge to throw more money at defence budgets across a number of countries has become infectious.  It was bound to happen with Donald Trump’s...

10.03.2025 10

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More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer’s Defense Spending Splash – OpEd

The urge to throw more money at defence budgets across a number of countries has become infectious.  It was bound

08.03.2025 5

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Macron’s Offer: France And The Delusions Of Nuclear Deterrence – OpEd

The singular antics of US President Donald Trump, notably towards supposed allies, has stirred the pot regarding national security in

07.03.2025 2

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Europe’s Ukrainian Predicament

There is something deeply moving about the ignorance and scatty nature of politicians.  At points, it can even be endearing.  In the apparently...

05.03.2025 10

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Righteous, Confused And Unwilling: Europe’s Ukrainian Predicament – OpEd

There is something deeply moving about the ignorance and scatty nature of politicians.  At points, it can even be endearing. 

04.03.2025 3

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Zelensky: Victim of Colosseum Politics

There was a revolting tabloid quality to the Oval Office reception given to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on February 28, but then again,...

04.03.2025 5

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Ho Hum at Sea: Anti-China Hysteria Down Under

The conduct of live-fire exercises by the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force (the Chinese “communists”, as they are called by the...

03.03.2025 10

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Ho Hum At Sea: Anti-China Hysteria Down Under – OpEd

The conduct of live-fire exercises by the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force (the Chinese “communists”, as they are called

02.03.2025 3

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Fiendish Experiments: Trump’s Guantánamo Bay Migrant Detentions – OpEd

Guantánamo Bay has been a fiendish experiment in US law for decades.  The fiendishness lies in the subversion.  Operating as

28.02.2025 3

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The Comical, Frightening Aussie Spy Chief, Mike Burgess

Never allow intelligence chiefs to speak publicly.  Their prerogative lies in lying, their reassurance, cool deception.  While the attractions of...

27.02.2025 10

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Cowardice and Cancellation: Creative Australia and the Venice Biennale

Cowardice is the milk that runs in the veins of many event organisers, especially when it comes to those occasions that might provoke the unmanaged...

25.02.2025 10

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Gloominess And Magical Thinking: The Comical, Frightening Mike Burgess – OpEd

Never allow intelligence chiefs to speak publicly.  Their prerogative lies in lying, their reassurance, cool deception.  While the...

25.02.2025 4

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Second Endings: Terminating Neighbors (Again)

Soppy, soapy and interminable, the Australian series Neighbours, the staple for millions of British (and Australian) watchers for years, their tonic...

24.02.2025 10

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Cowardice And Cancellation: Creative Australia And The Venice Biennale – OpEd

Cowardice is the milk that runs in the veins of many event organisers, especially when it comes to those occasions

23.02.2025 6

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Second Endings: Terminating Neighbours (Again) – OpEd

Soppy, soapy and interminable, the Australian series Neighbours, the staple for millions of British (and Australian) watchers for years, their

23.02.2025 3

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Feeling Very Fine: Picasso the Printmaker at the British Museum

This is Pablo Picasso the way he is rarely seen – at least in so far as the hundred or so pieces at the British Museum’s Picasso: Printmaker have...

18.02.2025 7

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Far From Benign: The US Aid Industrial Complex – OpEd

The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat

14.02.2025 9

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Cutting the Ghost Budget: Elon Musk Versus the Pentagon

The rampaging antics of a querulous, sociopathic tech oligarch as he busies himself identifying which government departments to raid, trim, if not...

13.02.2025 10

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Cutting The Ghost Budget: Elon Musk Versus The Pentagon – OpEd

The rampaging antics of a querulous, sociopathic tech oligarch as he busies himself identifying which government departments to raid, trim,

12.02.2025 5

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A Thief’s Mentality: Trump, Real Estate and Dreams of Ethnic Cleansing

President Donald J. Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different.  With a...

11.02.2025 20

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Why Fly In Europe?  The Dark Triumph Of The Ryanair Effect – OpEd

It has had a rebarbative, blighting effect across the entire aviation industry.  The Ryanair model, for want of a better

06.02.2025 9

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Trump, Tariffs and Russia: A Very Muddled Policy

It has become something of a fixation in the Donald Trump war chest of options that cowing, discomforting and baffling his various counterparts on the...

04.02.2025 10

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Funeral Atmospherics At The British Library – OpEd

On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. 

30.01.2025 5

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Frankfurt Airport: A Special Kind of Loathing

It cuts against the grain of the Teutonic character.  Instead of steely no-nonsense efficiency, we see gross lethargy in moving people across...

29.01.2025 8

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Frankfurt Airport: A Special Kind Of Loathing – OpEd

It cuts against the grain of the Teutonic character.  Instead of steely no-nonsense efficiency, we see gross lethargy in moving

27.01.2025 7

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Pity The Poesy: Mark Rutte, NATO And Spending For War – OpEd

There have been politicians who have fancied themselves as poets.  There was Herman Van Rompuy in April 2010 who, when

23.01.2025 3

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Justifying The Egregious: John Howard And Spying On East Timor – OpEd

Bugging, in the context of intelligence, is natural for the buggee.  Those who approve it and engage in such a

21.01.2025 6

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Situation Critical: UNRWA and its Continued Operations

In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end...

21.01.2025 8

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Bitter Harvests: The Gaza Ceasefire

Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke.  This is largely because the ceasefire announced...

20.01.2025 10

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Bitter Harvests: The Gaza Ceasefire – OpEd

Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke.  This is largely because the ceasefire

19.01.2025 3

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AUKUS: Flawed and Sinking

A stillborn agreement treated as thrivingly alive; an understanding celebrated as consensual and equal.  The AUKUS security arrangement between...

15.01.2025 10

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Detained Without Charge: Eleven Yemenis Leave Guantánamo

On January 6, the Pentagon announced that it had “resettled” 11 Yemeni men to Oman after detaining them over two decades without charge at the...

14.01.2025 30

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