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The naval blockade has become conveniently modish, particularly when it comes to narrow straits of water where heavy international traffic and cargo...
Key Takeaways: The naval blockade has become conveniently modish, particularly when it comes to narrow straits of water where heavy
He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald Trump continued to fixate on the election...
Key Takeaways: It remains a prickly reminder that Australia remains an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests
She has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her lack of erudition, and dismissed as...
Key Takeaways: He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald
Why are they so afraid? The Trump administration, pathologically obsessed about the exaggerated reach of the International Criminal Court, have...
Key Takeaways: She has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her
History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation to be cherished. When it...
Key Takeaways Why are they so afraid? The Trump administration, pathologically obsessed about the exaggerated reach of the International Criminal
Let the mockery and disdain begin. The elected member of the Essex seat of Clacton, also leader of the populist Reform UK party, has decided to avoid...
Words can function as prisons and windows. They can cage meaning and suffocate understanding. They can also reveal concepts which breathtaking...
Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired; airstrikes initiated....
Key Takeaways: It was a distasteful affair, but Australian politicians have become accustomed to those toadying practices that accompany capitulations
Nigel Farage is not a picture of happiness. As Britain’s version of Trumpism (only a version, never a facsimile), the leader of Reform UK had been...
Key Takeaways Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired;...
Key Takeaways Nigel Farage is not a picture of happiness. As Britain’s version of Trumpism (only a version, never a
In the annals of policy, strategy and budgeting, the AUKUS pact comprising Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States will be seen as one of...
When something is not working, abandon it. The policymaker and politician, the latter often inclined to populist temptation and the endless tapping...
The justice system of the United Kingdom, represented by stout cathedral structures and solemn rituals, tends to resemble a casino
Former US national security advisor John Bolton and President Donald J. Trump share traits neither probably knew they had. The latter, for one, is far...
It is one of the most remarkable ways to fall from grace. Leading British Labour to a deceptively crushing victory over diddling, muddling, decrepit...
The obsession, one verging on pathological, with political parties is producing its share of symptoms. These include, amongst others, cynicism,
When something is not working, abandon it. The policy maker and politician, the latter often inclined to populist temptation and
Former US national security advisor John Bolton and the President Donald J. Trump share traits neither probably knew they had.
Pauline Hanson has been a fixture of Australian politics since 1996, when she appeared with piercing, shrill bravado as the federal member for Oxley,...
Pauline Hanson has been a fixture of Australian politics since 1996, when she appeared with piercing, shrill bravado as the
Let us, if only briefly, give thanks for the peacemakers, whatever their poor qualifications and whatever folly drove them to war in the first place....
The FIFA Men’s World Cup of 2026 was always going to offer visitors and spectators something different. Shared between three countries – Mexico,...
Waxworks have nothing to say, but when incarnated in the form of former Fox News anchor and, at a pinch, “personality”, Pete Hegseth proves to be...
Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, that most draining, useless and even pernicious of security pacts, Australia has been the only country...
Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza...
One can never accuse the Australian political palette of being too demanding, let alone attentive. When it comes to matters of defence, that palette...
These are always occasions of anticipation and even celebration for the tinfoil hatters and those keen to spot the internal plot, the thriving fifth...
While eyes remain peeled on Israel’s increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is...
When the establishment journalism of Nicholas Kristof of that most establishment of papers, The New York Times, draws the ire of a foreign regime, and...
Revealing a steely yet erratic contempt of the law, the US Department of Justice is showing, again, how it became the spear carrier for kooky ideas...
It has been a sorry though predictable exercise. When he lived up (or down) to expectations of atrocious conduct befitting the proud bigot that he is,...
A needless, extravagant ballroom. Questionable gifts, not least the 747-200B aircraft from the Qatari government. An inane decision to add a blue...
They are a disagreeable bunch, with disagreeable ideas to match. The querulous brats behind the drive for technological servility and plugged in...
When dealing with the disorganised criminal outfit that is FIFA (the mafia comparison only goes so far), the titan governing body of world football,...
Cartel members are not always a congenial bunch. Relations can get frosty and brittle over time. With the United Arab Emirates, membership of the...
When dealing with the disorganised criminal outfit that is FIFA (the mafia comparison only goes so far), the titan governing
They make you do it – they, in this case, being the folly-fouled leaders of educational institutions – because it’s all in the name of...
Being very much the all-American figure that he was, the passing of Ted Turner was bound to enliven the cliché machine with the usual, clotty...
The jury at the Venice Biennale Art Exhibition have outdone themselves. Few juries at any art or literary festival can be trusted at the best of...
Louts pressing false claims, faux principled types seeking to score successes against clearly useless targets. Jules Hurst, in trying to discharge the...
Louts pressing false claims, faux principled types seeking to score successes against clearly useless targets. Jules Hurst, in trying to
Not much good comes from war. Qualifying exceptions, however, can be found. The United Nations, tarnished, libelled and mocked for being...
They have kept their strategy of cultural and institutional vandalism generously broad in recent campaigns against their adversaries. It therefore...
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