Articles by John Lord

Amid the trumped-up support of Donald Trump, you might remember the time he made some lewd comments, on a recording, about women. The one where […]

Goodness knows how many words I have written about this man. I want to think it is my last, but I’m not confident. 74,222,957 Americans […]

Is it just a rumour or another timely deflection? Ambassador to the USA, Arthur Sinodinos was rumoured to be ill and would be replaced by […]

Continued from My view of the year that was (part 2) The latter half of 2020 saw Australia as one of the leading countries in the […]

“Well done,” tweeted the NSW environment minister, Matt Kean, to the Prime Minister There were many responses, but federal MP Zali Steggall’s was to the […]

Continued from My view of the year that was (part 1) Come April/May of 2020 the coronavirus had taken control of our economy and our […]

I finished the year 2019 with a piece titled George Christensen and other secrets about the rather rotund figure of George. Well, not about his […]

I dared not think it but I couldn’t avoid the reality. I dared to think that the vindictive nature of the President would come to […]

Looking back on my writing for 2020 and what has motivated it the most common ingredient has been a sense of frustration that I’m not […]

Murdoch has them by the balls. What is it that Rupert Murdoch has that enables him to demand of our government millions of dollars of […]

The ABC’s Four Corners revelation about the sexual dalliances of Messrs Christian Porter and Alan Tudge may have brought to light their inability to control […]

Today America votes for the future of many things. For democracy, for an overheating planet, and many other matters of grave national and international importance. […]

The catalyst for writing this post was a political video of an unwell President Trump trumpeting his self-image with a voiceover of Frank Sinatra singing […]