The idiotic mindset of Donald Trump has been on display for quite some time and it is epitomised by his call for slowing down of testing for Covid-19 so there…
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An odd group of conspiracy theorists has sprung up, initially in the US. It is based on what its followers believe is someone in the security services in the US,…
About three weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the Liberal candidate for the Eden-Monaro by-election, Fiona Kotvojs, specifically about how she, at Scott Morrison’s urging, spouted the Liberal Party…
Only a couple of days after posting the second compilation of the federal Coalition government’s numerous examples of corruption, I found I had to start a third such compilation; such…
Renyi Zhang, from Texas A&M University, and colleagues have published a paper (June 11) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA in which they determine…
Amanda Stoker is a Liberal National Party senator from Queensland. In 2009, she lost preselection to Mark Robinson for the state seat of Cleveland1. Mark Robinson has turned out to…
So what motivates this swell of right-wing support for Trump? At this point, though many people on all sides still refuse to acknowledge it, the evidence is overwhelming: It was cultural backlash, against immigrants, minorities, uppity women, liberals, and all the other forces seen as dislodging traditional white men from their centrality in American culture.
As readers of this blog can attest there is an enormous number of things I worry about when the nations of the world are being shaken to their core by…