Needled Strawberries: Food Terrorism Down Under
There is something peculiar doing the rounds in Australian food circles. The land down under, considered something of a nirvana of fruit and vegetable production […]
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What do think tanks think?
Auguste Rodin’sThe Thinker is universally regarded as a symbol of science and philosophy. But Rodin originally called it The Poet as a detail of a […]
The Woes of Climate Change States
As Australia’s tattered yet new government, led by the increasingly oafish and amateurish Scott Morrison trundled into its post-climate phase, states which see their existence […]
A Traditional Right: Jimmie Åkesson and the Sweden Democrats
Sweden’s elections are normally dull affairs. The same political arrangements have been in place for decades, featuring mild oscillations around the centre between the green-red […]
Doctrines of Impunity: John Bolton and the ICC
The Trump administration’s national security advisor John Bolton has never been a fan of international law, a concept he has found, at best, rubbery. Any […]
The Natural Enemy: Serena Williams and the Sporting Umpire
Should it matter this much? A wealthy, successful individual expressed fury at the most popular object of vitriol in any sport. The umpire or referee […]
Tory Kafuffles: Boris Johnson, Brexit and Suicide Vests
The next blow in Boris Johnson’s chapter of political suicide has been made: a piece in the Mail on Sunday which supplied him ample room […]
Trump’s Mission of Distraction: Finding the Anonymous Author
The Trump presidency has proven to be a set of publicity driven punctuations and blows, riddled by distractions contrived and accidental. Controversy and accusation characterise […]
Traditional Fantasies: US designs on Venezuela
The irresistible allure of invasion and interference has never been far from US lawmakers. The Imperium needs its regular feed and what a feed it […]
Fraser Anning and the Smugness of Australian “Values”
Be wary of the self-satisfied and morally soothed. The complacent have a habit of giving the game away, glorifying themselves in satisfied satiation. Australia’s parliament […]
Repudiating the Global Commons: Trump’s Militarisation of Space
In international law, a category regarded by certain legal philosophers as non-existent (there being no overarching sovereign to police it), aspirations reign like obstinate fantasies. […]
Battling Contamination: Erin Brockovich Down Under
The Australian press have been in a state of drooling ecstasy. Part of it is because Australia can be relevant, however negative it might be, […]
The Carnival of Homelessness: How the Filthy Rich React
An aggressive sign of an affluent society can usually be gauged by its invidious misuse of its privilege. Poverty is deemed necessary, and the rich […]
Banning Chelsea Manning: The Dubious Tests of Character
National security advocates have been crotchety ever since the release of Chelsea Manning for a sentence they hoped would go the full, crushing 35 years. […]
The language of treachery versus a statement from the heart
When I thought there was nothing more to write about apropos the events of the last fortnight, I came across an op-ed penned by Daily […]