None of Your Business: China, Hong Kong and a Question of Sovereignty
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam seemed to relish it before the cameras this week. The United States was enduring extensive shudders of internal instability […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
To the Commercial Heavens We Go! SpaceX, NASA and Space Privatisation
It would be too simple to regard the latest space venture, funded by Elon Musk, as entirely a matter of vast ego and deeply-pocked adventurism. […]
Let’s Burn the Whole Thing Down: Death, Protest and George Floyd
Mobs are unruly, headless things. The message is the action. The platform is often violence. But what is happening across the United States cannot simply […]
Sinister Flatulence: Trump versus Twitter
Sawing off the branch you sit on can hardly be the best of policies. But that all depends on the nature of the branch. US […]
Welcome Deaths: Coronavirus and the Open Plan Office
For anybody familiar with that gruesome manifestation of the modern workplace, namely the open plan office, the advent of coronavirus might be something of a […]
Ego Trip: US Space Flags and Super-Duper Missiles
US President Donald Trump is much taken with the bombastic and the exaggerated. In an interview with the Associated Press in April 2017, he spoke […]
One Rule for Me and Another for Everyone Else: The Cummings Coronavirus Factor
Leaving crises to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s management skills will never disappoint those who favour chaos and the attractions of vague direction. The double standard […]
Budget Cockups in the Time of Coronavirus: Reporting Errors and Australia’s JobKeeper Scheme
Hell has, in its raging fires, ringside seats for those who like their spreadsheets. The seating, already peopled by those from human resources, white collar […]
Patterns of Compromise: The EasyJet Data Breach
It has been a withering time for the airlines, whose unused planes moulder in a gruelling waiting game of survival. The receivers are smacking their […]
Pandemic Inquiry Wars: Australia, the United States and the Coronavirus Investigation
The Australian press and a chorus of the country’s politicians painted a misguided, blotched picture: the Scott Morrison government had achieved its goal of convincing […]
Battles over Barley: Australia, China and the Tariff Wars
It promised to be bruising to both dignity and wallet. However brazen Australian politicians have been drumming up support for an international inquiry into the […]
Why Thinking Makes It So: Donald Trump’s Obamagate Fixation
The “gate” suffix has been wearing thin since the break-in scandal that gave it its birth. Since Watergate, virtually anything dubious and suggestive, and much […]
Inglorious Bastardry: Hacking for Vaccines
If you cannot discover or create something, best steal it. It has been the operating principle for everything from wealth to technology. With the efforts […]
The Mouse Roars: Australia, China and a Coronavirus Independent Inquiry
Australia matters little when it comes to international muscle. It is the retainer and pretender of power, a middle-distance runner who runs out of puff […]
The Liabilities of History: The Dangers of Pandemic Compensation
Smug assertions of liability in history are often incautious things. They constitute a fruit salad mix: assertions of the wishful thinkers; hopes of the crazed; […]