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Egypt. The five letters that evoke timeless exoticism and fascination. The pyramids and the Sphinx. The land of the Pharaohs and of the Nile. Egyptians, […]
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Angelina Dumps Brad Over JoBenet Murder
I often look at the bottom of Buzz… Sorry, I mean News.com.au page at their list of top 10 most read stories at the moment. […]
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A tale of two cities
Every city in reality is two cities: the centre and the periphery, uptown and downtown, inner city and suburbs, the richer middle and upper class […]
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Recent European history summarized in one picture
As Glenn Reynolds would say, “fundamentally transformed”: Others could say, “population replacement”. One could rather flippantly note that between 1940 and 1945 Germans worked very […]
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The Nazis return, or the coming German/European crack-up
You’ve heard it here first: it’s Sunday night in Berlin, and brown-shirted storm troopers are marching through the streets once again, torch in one hand […]
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The left bashes Trump for believing conspiracy theories perpetuated by the left
You don’t see me too often defending Donald Trump, but what’s fair is fair. The left keeps slamming Trump (rightly) for being a conspiracy monger, […]
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No, wondering about Hillary’s health is not sexist prejudice
One of my favourite Twitter accounts is @SoMuchGuardian, which highlights the self-parodying output of this trendy inner city leftie rag. One of the most recent […]
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Is Paris “a post-apocalyptic hellhole of public urination and litter�
Zoe Strimpel at “The Daily Telegraph†has had a different Paris experience than me: It was 1am and we were just leaving dinner at a […]
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Here comes the Euro-army
Or maybe not. Like weather, a European army is something that everyone keeps talking about but no one does anything about. One could argue that […]
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Bring back Cossie
Should Peter Costello come back to politics and save the Liberal Party? So says the radio host Neil Mitchell, while rallying about the “current lot†[…]
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Paris needs love
Between where I stepped off a train from Rotterdam at Gare du Nord and the end of the platform I counted some forty French police […]
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September 11 in Holland’s largest Muslim city
It’s fifteen years today since four terrorist teams composed of mainly Saudi citizens under orders from Al Qaeda attacked America with her own planes. I […]
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Vote 1 Pirate!
After getting humiliated in the Macklenburg-Vorprommen state elections on Sunday, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats face another challenge in the local poll in Berlin in a […]
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FU Marx and Engels: the capitalist vs the communist Berlin
Berlin is a mutilated city. So much of it has been destroyed, so much of it has been rebuilt, so much of it has not […]
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Happy 40 years of rotting in hell, Mao
Time flies when you’re not causing deaths of tens of millions of your compatriots. China’s “Global Times†reports from Shaoshan where thousands of people have […]
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From the Berlin Wall to the Checkpoint Charlie
I have on my desk a little piece of the Berlin Wall that a friend brought back for me from a visit some years ago. […]
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Berlin at night
When you jump on a plane in Brisbane and fly for over an hour, you get to Canberra. When you jump on a plane in […]
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Atlantis of climate change alarmism
It’s this time of the year; another Pacific Island Forum annual conference opens, this time in Pohnpei. The Forum is a regional talking shop of […]
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How we stopped worrying about the financial apocalypse and started to enjoy life (beyond our means)
Malcolm Farr asks the question this afternoon, “How does the Coalition sell its budget cuts when our economy continues to grow?†The short answer is: […]
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Can you run the Dutch oven on renewables?
News from Holland to warm one’s heart and the atmosphere: Dutch greenhouse gas emissions rose by 5 per cent in 2015 from a year earlier, […]
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