Fact hunt – the worst person of 2022
The End of an Error Nominating those most worthy of their fall under the 2022 karma bus provides both a shortlist for fuck-knuckle of the […]
Boris Johnson
Zombie Policy Apocalypse Part 2: Cruel Britannia
Continued from Part 1 From Cruel Britannia, Land of Grope and Tory – a scandal-ridden post Brexit economic basket-case, The Sick Man of Europe, or […]
Zombie Policy Apocalypse Part 1
Taking Britain and Putin’s oil and gas war-disrupted Covid-stricken world markets by storm is Trussed!, another spectacular episode of trickle-down and double backflip, a 45 […]
Morrison’s Coup De Grâce
“Human beings are social beings, who need to be able to rely on each other. That requires trust, and trust requires truth-telling.” (Quassim Cassam). Grace […]
ScoMo plays Djoko but Dutton buys tanks
“Nine years long” reads a handmade sign in a sealed window of the Park Hotel, Swanston Street, Carlton, a grim, grey, makeshift, Melbourne gaol for […]
The traits of right-wing extremism
By Kathryn There is so much hatred and violence in an ever-increasingly right-wing world mismanaged by totally corrupt, self-serving, profit-obsessed sociopaths like Donald Trump (USA), […]
Morrison’s credibility as leader goes up in a cloud of smoke.
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It’s cloud’s illusions I recall I really don’t know clouds […]
Boris Johnson Against Parliament
A pretty odd thing, this. The prime minister of Britain, supposedly of the conservative creed, making an almost violent dash against both parliament and the […]
Surplus to requirements, ScoMo?
Applause, stamping, hoots and catcalls resound up and down our wide brown land as another big week in Oz-politics lives down to expectations, as John […]
When will Morrison and his government be held to account?
“With everything that’s going on at the moment we need to be in the tent and we need to know what’s going on – and […]
Pell appeal verdict unleashes a perfect storm for our Tory ruling class
Head bowed, a manacled cardinal is led hobbling out of court into a prison van, a shocking image calculated to rock our nation’s Tories to […]
Boris’s blonde ambitions
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it […]
Ooh Ah James McGrath
When Queensland Liberal Senator James McGrath gave his maiden speech in July last year, Doug Cameron described him as a “fruit loop ” and a […]