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…
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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…
The American Empire is not going to be defeated on the battlefield. It is going to be defeated by the spreadsheet. It is going to drown in the compounding interest of its own military addiction. And when the history books are written, they will note that the richest country in the history of the world could not afford to feed its children, could not afford to treat its sick, could not afford to house its poor... but could always, ALWAYS, find another few trillion dollars to blow something up on the other side of the planet. That is not strength. That is a sickness.
Now that the far right of the Liberal Party has taken over the party from the ‘moderates’ with the election of Angus Taylor as leader, they have started amping up…
The half-time entertainment at the Super Bowl, which is an American football final, included Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin and Lady Gaga. Bad Bunny sang in Spanish, which is his native…