Trump talks of God, but acts of evil
Brandishing a Bible in his right hand the President of the United States of America stood in front of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church […]
Articles by John Lord
The greatest showman, or the greatest threat?
Last Tuesday I watched the greatest ever political-showman address the American nation – or more likely – his political base. With black solemnity, President Trump […]
Letters from the Queen’s secretary on a touchy subject
To people of my vintage it seems like yesterday that these events in the history of Australia’s democracy took place. Those of us who lived […]
What a “couldn’t care less” lot we are
What a laconic couldn’t care less lot we are. Even when we get agitated over something we rarely make a ripple on Bondi beach. The […]
We are being conned if we believe the government
In my recent article I concluded with: Confronted with the fact that no one wants to invest in coal, what do you do? One is […]
Alan Jones: A rat from the feral right
People like Alan Jones, Ray Hadley and Andrew Bolt worked out long ago that there is money in hate-filled rants. They are the peddlers of […]
Please, won’t you just say it as it is?
President Trump is giving his daily press conference and on a split screen a man constantly interrupts to point out his lies, his misrepresentations, his […]
Turnbull: Just the man to tell all (part 2)
I always had a soft spot for Malcolm Turnbull. The early pages of his memoirs outline the many occupations he experienced as a young man […]
Turnbull: Just the man to tell all (part 1)
My association with the man Malcolm Turnbull began in 1999. It was the year that Australia attempted to become a republic. I was an area […]
A very unstable genius
Where would the President of the United States get the idea from that injecting disinfectant into the body could cure COVID-19? From a fellow called […]
A layperson’s guide to lying
An app for the purpose of finding and identifying those who are close to a virus carrier is an invention of significance. It deserves the […]
It’s more than just a virus: there are culture wounds and abscesses of leadership
So submersed have we become with all the consequences and complications of COVID-19 that it has preoccupied our minds as if nothing else exists. And […]
Memes R Us
I put this simple question, “What is a meme?” to Wikipedia. This is what they told me: An Internet meme, more commonly known simply as a meme (/miːm/ MEEM), […]
“Be generous with your praise and considerate with your criticism”
What ever I have been involved in be it sport, the arts, politics, community or writing for The AIMN I have tried to adhere to […]
What will happen in the aftershock of the corona virus? (part two)
What does ‘snapback’ mean? Our political system is in crisis because our government fails to speak with any clarity on issues that concern us. Last […]