
China does as China is
Call this the Commiebridge Analytica: Tens of thousands of Australians — including celebrities, politicians and journalists — have had their data collected by a company with links to Chinese military …
Read MoreCall this the Commiebridge Analytica: Tens of thousands of Australians — including celebrities, politicians and journalists — have had their data collected by a company with links to Chinese military …
Read MoreAs somebody who has experienced “not the real socialism”(TM) for the first fifteen years of my life, I seriously never expected that a few decades on I would have to …
Read MoreBe careful what you put on your office walls – or at least where you take your photographs: A small icon associated with communism on the wall of an ACT …
Read MoreA hundred years ago this week, a series of biggest battles that Europe were to witness between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the beginning of …
Read MoreThe hope that statue-destroyers would restrict themselves to just slave traders was misplaced. It was as naive as asking the question “who will they pull down next?” The answer is: …
Read MoreThere is plenty of negativity to go around these days just about everywhere you look, but if you want to be particularly depressed today, I recommend this article from “The …
Read MoreMake no mistake: the attacks, both physical and rhetorical, against the memory of Winston Churchill show that the mask of the agitators in the streets and across the social media …
Read More* and so, most likely, are you** ** according to the new nomenclature I was born in another time and another place. It was a different world – the past …
Read MorePresident Trump’s decision to designate Antifa as a terrorist organisation is long overdue. Whether you call them a terrorist organisation or a criminal organisation – or both – the underlying facts are …
Read MoreWe could have done it 31 years ago, after the People’s Liberation Army’s tanks liberated thousands of protesters from their lives across Beijing. We could have done it 23 years …
Read MoreWelcome to the political chaos theory – or, should we say, fact: a bat flapping its wings in China produces a hurricane… pretty much everywhere around the world. It seems …
Read MoreImagine a credible candidate for a significant elected office – never mind the Presidency of the United States of America, the elected office in the world – who has spent …
Read MoreWhat has the virus wrought? In some ways it is a perfect weapon: it doesn’t kill that many people in a greater scheme of things but it terrorises whole societies …
Read More7:40am – My news day starts with reading that last night at 10pm, a double truck carrying among other things toilet paper from a warehouse to the stores has somehow caught …
Read MoreThis afternoon, on the way back from the gym, I popped into my local Coles to get some fruit and veg. Having picked up everything I wanted, curiosity took me …
Read MoreAround the world, the shop shelves are emptying fast. In Australia: Australian supermarkets are being completely stripped of essential items from people seemingly stockpiling products as fears surrounding the coronavirus outbreak …
Read MoreThe year wouldn’t go past without Vladimir Putin managing to again eschew any role in starting the Second World War and instead blaming Poland for getting invaded: Speaking at a …
Read MoreBah-humbug! Sorry people to snow on your parade (or should it be “sorry snowflakes to rain on your parade”) but there is something you should know about the supposedly jolly …
Read MoreIf you have Netflix (no chill necessary), there is a Polish series available, in fact the first Polish Netflix production ever, called “1983”. Yes, there is an element of play …
Read MoreSomehow I have managed to miss this absolutely hottest take on the issue of persecution of China’s Muslim minority, from Lijian Zhao, a foreign ministry official: Zhao is talking about …
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