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Graham HryceRT.com |
For the Australian right, Ben Roberts-Smith is a beacon of virtue. For the left, he is a murderer. Both will use him as a culture-war grunt.
In his famous political tract – The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, published in 1852 – Karl Marx proffered the generalization that...
Recent events have confirmed that US President Donald Trump is the ultimate political pragmatist. Since his inauguration in January, Trump has endured...
This week the youthful and charismatic Democrat politician Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York city. Mamdani’s victory was, in one sense,...
Perhaps the most noticeable feature of politics in the West in recent years has been the swift and irreversible demise of traditional conservative...
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The Trump administration has been having a rough few months. Domestic chaos – fuelled by the use of black clad, masked para-military squads to...
Political developments over the past few weeks in Australia suggest that we may be witnessing the embryonic emergence of a new populist party in this...
Australia’s Labor government was returned to office at last Saturday’s federal election in a landslide win. Labor now holds 90 seats in the House...
Australian voters go to the polls next Saturday – voting in this country is compulsory, unlike in most Western democracies – but this is not a...
The ubiquitous and ongoing critique of Donald Trump from the so-called social democratic ‘left’ in America – namely that he is a ‘fascist’...
The first term Labor prime minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, must go to the polls before the end of May. Astute political commentators predict...
In a recent post, right-wing social commentator and former academic Matt Goodwin announced that he had “just exposed how the British Psychological...
Elon Musk’s dramatic recent intervention in British politics has raised a number of important issues relating to the pervasive influence of social...