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Key Takeaways: It is not a good time to be a politician. Prices are rising with extortionate speed. Foolish wars
Key Takeaways: Tyrants and demagogues love sports and the governing bodies that preside over them. Despite strictures, injunctions and warnings
Key Takeaways: The Nobel Peace Prize is an institution long stuffed with straw. Established by the inventor of dynamite Alfred
Key Takeaways: On December 3, two traditions risk combining in foul if remarkable fashion. In the United States, an execution
Key Takeaways: There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly
Key Takeaways: This month has seen the United Nations issue two reports alleging the commission of war crimes and crimes
Key Takeaways: It’s become the disease of affluence: How do wealthy countries limit, restrict or totally bar migrants (whether they
Key Takeaways: It’s bleak. “They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” So stated researcher Jacob
International responses to Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank, notably regarding redrawing the ethnic composition of the territory, have...
Key Takeaways: In the unpardonable ecosystem of graft, favours and corruption that is defence contracting, defence conferencing and all matters
Key Takeaways: There is much in the nature of a map. The very drawing of a line signifies an assertion,
Key Takeaways: In September 2025, nine countries launched the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel. Australia explained its...
When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open incitement to international...
Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General...
Key Takeaways: When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open
Restricting access to social media platforms to children of a certain age has become something of a spreading mania. This prohibitionist urge has...
The term “antisemitism” is now so commonly used as an accusation as to be placed beyond questioning. This is particularly so in countries claiming...
Key Takeaways: The term “antisemitism” is now so commonly used as an accusation as to be placed beyond questioning. This
Key Takeaways: The conflict with Iran continues to deliver its mean shocks to an increasingly doddering US imperium. Depleted munitions,
The lesson scrawled and etched across the neglected covers of history books (few read them these days) suggests one mighty, consistent rule: Never...
Key Takeaways: The lesson scrawled and etched across the neglected covers of history books (few read them these days) suggests
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
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