The Yazidis are a religious and ethnic minority indigenous to northern Iraq who were systematically targeted by the Islamic State (ISIS) from August 2014 onwards. Thousands of Yazidi men and…
As anyone who reads or watches the news known, there has been a rise in right-wing populism in the US, UK and Australia. There have been many reasons put forward…
On Tuesday, I was talking to an American friend on Zoom at 6:30 am Canberra time. He couldn’t stop laughing when I told him that it was rare for me…
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…
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…
Trump recently visited China, and praised Chinese President Xi Jinping, calling him a “great leader”. This was met with accusations of sycophancy and embarrassment from some who saw it as…
We have booked to see the movie Quartet in a few days. It is a most enjoyable movie, which we saw perhaps a decade or so ago. The movie was…
I was talking to someone the other day about school shootings and they opined that many of them were committed by transgender people. They were adamant that this was the…
You, Jillian Segal, have attempted to conflate criticism of the appalling behaviour of Israel in Gaza and now Lebanon and Iran, with antisemitism. This, I presume, is a desperate ploy…