Conspiracy, Death and Jeffrey Epstein
Within minutes of news about his death in a Manhattan jail cell Saturday morning, theories spread with pestilential vigour. Was Jeffrey Epstein murdered? Accepting the […]
Politics
CPAC’s travelling show can pack up and go home. And stay there.
“I’ve been to the border,” Fox TV’s Judge Jeanine Pirro says. US citizens living there talk of “rape trees” upon which the clothes of rape […]
Orange Man Bad is Not A Campaign Strategy: A Warning to The Democrats
In a recent New Rules segment, HBO’s Bill Maher went on a rant about Trump Fatigue. Maher coined this phrase to represent the idea that people […]
The weight of so much baggage
Australians in their somewhat laconic fashion voted to give arguably the worst government in its history another term in office. Little did they know that […]
Mobility and Maginot Lines: China Hysteria Down Under
The blinkered security establishment is standard fare in politics. From Washington to Manila, we hear of terrors and concerns which tend to more spectral than […]
Conservative Christians running foreign policy are scary
Much has been written about Andrew Hastie’s idiotic comments this week comparing the rise of China to that of Nazi Germany. Having James Patterson come […]
Mass murder: The prose of a president past
This was the Barack Obama the world had come to know over his two terms as President of the United States. In a statement delivered […]
Australia should join the non-aligned bloc of nations …
When big dogs bark, little dogs should keep their flapping yaps shut. If there ever has been a saying that so clearly applies to Australia […]
Public Servant Loses High Court Case: An Analysis
A public servant who operated an anonymous Twitter account that was critical of Australian government policy has lost her high court case over her termination. […]
Caught in the Strait
It is clear that the United Kingdom could not have thought this through. Was it a touch of the Suez jitters, the haunting syndrome of […]
Get used to the new world leadership
By Ad astra It’s happened again! Just when thoughtful folk believed world leadership could not become more bizarre than it is, Boris Johnson gets the […]
Who needs due diligence when you have billions of public money to splash around?
It has come to the stage where nothing surprises anymore. The government is not even pretending to do due diligence as it hands out billions […]
Whose side are you on, ScoMo?
Describing the US-Australia alliance as “unbreakable”, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped the junior ally would partner with America on “some of the […]
Cheering a New Arms Race: The End of the INF
US President Donald Trump is a master of the withdrawal method. That said, it is often forgotten that the United States remains that most fickle […]
Problem Industries and The Way Forward
The industrial revolution, for all its flaws and all the misery it caused, was a major step forward in human civilisation. Goods were now available […]