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Once done, it remains, by nature and fact, irreversible. The precedent of indicting and abducting a serving head of state
The Trump administration is increasingly resembling a government previously abominated by the current US president as entangling, bumbling, and prone
While the secret signals and surveillance facility at Pine Gap in Northern Australia, officially named the Joint Defence Facility Pine
On the surface, abducting a Head of State is a piratical act eschewed by States. A Head of State enjoys absolute immunity from foreign criminal...
On the surface, abducting a Head of State is a piratical act eschewed by States. A Head of State enjoys
It has been an accusation long levelled at certain US politicians that their brains might have been softened by a lengthy diet of television,...
The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in
It’s been one of the strangest cricket series on record. Hurried, frenetic, foolish, haphazard and, at points, unbecomingly immature. The...
It’s been one of the strangest cricket series on record. Hurried, frenetic, foolish, haphazard and, at points, unbecomingly immature. The
At present, there is a pot-calling-the-kettle-black approach being taken by the European Union and the United States regarding the imposition of...
At present, there is a pot-calling-the-kettle-black approach being taken by the European Union and the United States regarding the imposition
Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in doing...
Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any
The Swedish police have promised it will go nowhere, but the attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to draw attention to the inappropriateness of...
It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also...
Does Italian cuisine exist? Not according to Alberto Grandi, daring food historian and professor of economic history at the University of...
The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled. In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the...
In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the practical sort: “It is his...
Pete Hegseth, the soap opera styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity. His behaviour before generals is the
A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time,...
A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for
On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Airforce base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military...
If the camel is a committee’s version of a horse, then the concluding notes of the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) at Belém,...
On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Airforce base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to
The Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is at it again. Gulling, wooing, and grinning his way into the establishment of another country,...
According to its website, the mission of Al-Majd Europe, yet another odd charity organisation operating in the mash and rubble of Gaza, is...
The authorities in Türkiye have hit their stride regarding international humanitarian law, a subject they are not always consistent about.
According to its website, the mission of Al-Majd Europe, yet another odd charity organisation operating in the mash and rubble
What makes up a marriage has been the subject of state, community and tribal control since human society took some form. Who is to marry whom; the...
The world of defence policy is truly another planet. There, budgets are given to astronomical burgeoning and bizarre readings. Threats can be...
In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare. When it comes...
It’s so silly as to be depraved. Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for
Google has become something of a fixture in digital infrastructure in the Pacific. In late 2023, Canberra announced a joint project with the US,...
What makes up a marriage has been the subject of state, community and tribal control since human society took some
Google has become something of a fixture in digital infrastructure in the Pacific. In late 2023, Canberra announced a joint
It began with a revelation in The Telegraph on November 3. The paper had seen an internal memo in the BBC pointing to editing on its October...
It began with a revelation in The Telegraph on November 3. The paper had seen an internal memo in the
Why trust these gold seeking buffoons of questionable expertise? Overpaid as they are by gullible clients who really ought to know better,...
Why trust these gold seeking buffoons of questionable expertise? Overpaid as they are by gullible clients who really ought to
The world of defence policy is truly another planet. There, budgets are given to astronomical burgeoning and bizarre readings. Threats
In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare. When it
Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to...
Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect. Astride the nonsense that is nuclear apartheid – the...
Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception.
Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect. Astride the nonsense that is
Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who...
The October 20 performance saw few transgressions and many feats of compliance. As a guest in the White House, Australian Prime Minister Anthony...
By Rosa Hwang The newsroom is dark. The microphones are off. Broadcasts have been silenced. Publishing is paused. On social media.
Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise
The wish to be credulous is central to the fraudulent scheme. The one playing the fraud can always rely on some connivance and collaboration from...