Chaff Candidates: The Race for the UK Tory Leadership
As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson set the scene in spectacular fashion, all who sought to confine him to history, perished. He was the only […]
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International Accountability: Myanmar, the ICJ and the Genocide Question
The indomitable spirit of Raphael Lemkin, bibliophile, assiduous documenter of humanity’s dark deeds and inexecrable conduct, is bound to be an unsettled one. This brilliant, […]
The symptoms of mental illness are not the “plan of Satan”, Mr Morrison
I have refrained from writing this post for four days, as it is my apperception (the mental process by which a person makes sense of […]
Customary Barbarity: Britain’s SAS in Afghanistan
The insistence that there is a noble way of fighting war, one less bloody and brutal, has always been the hallmark of forces self-described as […]
Get Gota: Holding a War Criminal Accountable
The fall and ignominious retreat of Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa has enlivened one distinct possibility. Having formally resigned as Sri Lankan President, a point made […]
Catching Up With The Future Past – A Personal Note
It is indeed possible there is advanced, complex, diverse, sentient and intelligent life elsewhere, but there might be nothing for extra-terrestrials to visit if we […]
Barely Legal: The Global Uber Enterprise
The lobbying of Uber should, along with those of other corporate giants, only surprise those prone to pollyannaish escapism. Its hungry, desperate behaviour takes place […]
My Mental Illness – A Survivor’s View
Trigger Warning: this article goes where my brain chooses to take it. I’m along for the ride just as much as you are ..(Image from […]
Enraged evangelists subvert Christianity
By Brian Morris Staggeringly, there are more than 45,000 incarnations of Christianity in the world, according to the Centre for the Study of Global Christianity. […]
The Major Questions Doctrine: The US Supreme Court Blunts the EPA
The US Supreme Court has been frantically busy of late, striking down law and legislation with an almost crazed, ideological enthusiasm. Gun laws have been […]
Overruling Roe v Wade: The International Dimension
American exceptionalism can be a dreary thing, and no more so than each time a US president promotes the country’s imperial credentials and continued prowess. […]
Revisionism
By Ad astra Revisionism is a general term that can be used with both positive and negative connotations for any scholarly practice dedicated to revising […]
The brutality of “Bulldozer Justice” in India
It looks all too eerily similar as a method: the expulsion of individuals from their home, the demolition of said home and the punishing of […]
‘Top Gun: Maverick’: The Pentagon Recruitment Drive
Hollywood, like the US press, has not been spared the influential hand of government. Under the mask of various projects, the defence establishment has sought […]
Deadly Games: The Labour Casualties of Qatar’s World Cup
A sordid enterprise, nasty, crude and needless. But the World Cup 2022 will be, should anyone bother watching it, stained by one of the highest […]