There has been a bit of activity among a small fleet of superyachts recently. One, Scheherazade, was impounded by Italian authorities in May 2022 under suspicion that it was owned by…
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There could be no more treacherous terrain into which to send American troops to fight than the inside of Donald Trump’s brain. It is a place where ego and pride drive decisions rather than rationality, where delusions have replaced any sense of reality, in which ignorance rules and from which facts are banished, in which base impulses and spasmodic misfires have crushed any role reason or decency might have played.
We got back from Sydney and the next day, woke up feeling like I had been hit by a bus. Incessant coughing, feeling there was a small furry animal trapped…
We drove up to Sydney in our EV again1. This time it was to do a bit of ‘babysitting’ for some of the last few days of school holidays. We…
What lies behind the Peace Prize awarded in Washington, on December 5, 2025, to Donald Trump by the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino? More than seven months after the Mango…
Being an old soccer player from way back, I have of course been watching the men’s World Cup which is being played in Canada, the US and Mexico. This time…
Last century, my grandfather came down with what was just termed dementia or senile dementia, and was eventually confined to what was called a mental institution, where he eventually died….
The reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, in Washington D.C., was dedicated in 1922. It is 619 metres long and 51 metres wide, and less than…
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation television show Gruen1, which examines the advertising industry, sometimes hilariously, is always entertaining. On a recent show telecast on Wednesday June 3rd, one of the regular…
The very peculiar Chris Uhlmann has outdone himself with a piece in the Australian (where else?) entitled ‘Will Pauline Hanson be the Martin Luther of our time’1. While the title…