Vague Alternatives and G7 Summitry: The Build Back Better World Initiative
Summits often feature grand statements and needless fripperies. In Cornwall, the leaders of the G7 countries were trying to position and promote their relevance as […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Less Freedom, More Money: Tony Blair’s Vaccine Passport
Sincere Tony is again on the stump, promoting his vision of how best to return to a lovely, unruffled world of capitalist endeavour, circuit lecturing […]
ET, You Bore Me: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the Pentagon
Those of you drawing sustenance and stimulation from the traditional acronym UFO best brace yourselves. The less exciting and dull term accepted by the defence […]
Denmark Offshores the Right to Asylum
This has been a fantasy of Danish governments for some time. There have been gazes of admiration towards countries like Australia, where processing refugees and […]
Of Plagues and Rodents: Australia’s War Against Mice
Not a day goes by these days without a casual remark about animal extermination in Australia. Mice have moved to the front of the queue […]
Suicidal Games: Tokyo’s Coronavirus Olympics
A pandemic crisis. A state of emergency. Overwhelming public opinion bristling with alarm. Notwithstanding these factors, Tokyo is still on track to host the Olympics […]
That Old Story: Spying on Friends
One has to be repeatedly reminded that the theatre of international relations knows no friends and only national interests, whatever those might be. Intelligence services, […]
Laying the Bear Trap: Orbán visits 10 Downing Street
His comments would not have fallen on deaf ears. While metropolitan London would have been aghast at his pedigree and remarks, a Brexit-audience in the […]
The Dominic Cummings Show
The former chief strategist for Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in a stroppy mood before the UK parliamentary Health and Science committee. For seven hours, […]
How It All Went Wrong: The Global Response to COVID-19
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response was never likely to hand down a rosy report with gobbets of praise. Organised by the World […]
Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney and the Rule of Law
One could not accuse US Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming of having a sense of irony. For some time, she has felt her party to […]
Burned by the Diana Cult: The Fall of Martin Bashir
The interview was infamous, made his name and was bound to enrage. It also received a viewing audience of 23 million people who heard a […]
Coronavirus Travels and Cruising with Viking
It starts off as an exercise of anticipation. First comes the softening drinks and teasing morsels which find their mark. The audience at this promotions […]
The gilt comes off: Singapore goes into lockdown
A clean, technology driven dystopia. A representation of our techno future. These were the introductory descriptions to a piece by science fiction author William Gibson […]
“Elbowed and Hustled”: Australia’s Yellow Peril Problem
With the babble about Cold War paranoia becoming a routine matter in Canberra, the treacherous ground for war with China is being bedded down and […]