THE CIRCUS IS COMING TO TOWN AGAIN
with new bags of tricks and promises What can we expect from the 2025 election? The news has been around for about a year or so now. The clowns are…
with new bags of tricks and promises What can we expect from the 2025 election? The news has been around for about a year or so now. The clowns are…
Prediction 1. “Israel wins its war but loses the peace”. UN-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-IRAN-CONFLICT Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan looks at notes as he delivers remarks during a United Nations Security…
(duellists in a judicial farce) Full article on the Court’s judgement (as reported by The Guardian) appendaged to this essay. AN OLD ARRIVAL My antecedents came to Australia four generations ago.…
Nov 6, 2024. Remember that date. It heralds in the beginning of the end
(why are so many politicians ostensibly clever and so few demonstratively wise?) INTRODUCTION TO FOLLOWING ESSAY I’d have preferred to use a more provocative graphic than Rodin’s thinker for…
Only one nation can stop a rampant Israel from continuing on its path of bloodshed. That nation is the USA, Israeli’s closest ally...its largest supplier of treasure and arms.On Friday…
Neville Chamberlain, British PM returning from Munich meeting with Hitler 1938 waving a treaty promising “Peace for Our Time”: an example of where unpreparedness leads to appeasement which in turn encourages an aggressor to launch war.
INTRODUCTION Alice Weidel - leader far right-wing AfD party Germany Welcome to this month’s discussion. If I were an academic the piece would have been titled something like ‘Women: Diversity and…
(The phoney fight over energy sources) Imagine, you’re driving through the southern tablelands one winter’s morning. It’s cold outside (minus 5). You’re on the way to a meeting - about two…
(by bearing the costs of inefficient government) Sir Humphrey Appleby (“Yes Minister”) would be proud of the massive improvements in the remuneration of public servants in Australia, especially (but not…