Derangement continues
It’s hard not to despair at the state of politics at the moment. Perhaps it has always been this cringeworthy and terrible, but now we have the 24-hour news cycle, …
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No regulation out of frustration
This sounds more like trolling than a serious proposal, but nowadays you never know: President Donald Trump is considering new regulations on Google’s search engine to address his concern that …
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7 reasons why Australia is a better friend to the US than Canada
Earlier today Donald Trump sent a congratulatory tweet to Australia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Congratulations to new Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. There are no greater friends than the …
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No nice sentiment shall go unmocked
Australia has got a new Prime Minister as of Friday, sixth in ten years (yes, we have become a bit like Italy used to be, but with better standard of …
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Twelve Scared Men and Seven Angry News Organisations
High drama at the intersection of politics, judicial system and the media: Paul Manafort’s trial will stretch into a fourth week, as jurors headed home Friday without reaching a verdict …
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The 1st Amendment Freedom of Leak
It’s a fact little remarked upon that in 1976 one current and one future leader of their nation’s top intelligence agency both voted communist: KGB’s Yuri Andropov in the Soviet Politburo …
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Forecast: There will be a lot of punching
As I wrote a few days ago, the “Unite the Right” rally in Washington DC over the weekend united some two dozen white supremacists for a complete fizzer. By contrast, …
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Welcome to the new anti-hate hate
Lots has been happening in the United States in the last few days, though if I were relying only on the mainstream media to inform me the mental picture I …
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The world’s smallest lira
Tayyip Erdogan’s plans to Make Turkey Greater Again run into some Make America Great Again problems: Serap, a 23-year-old clerk at a clothes store in central Istanbul, is sure of who …
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Right-wing censors versus left-wing book burners
Won’t somebody please think of the Constitutional children? By which I mean the Amendments, and especially the 1st one. Free speech is under attack, both in theory and in practice. …
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Lest we forget the press
The closing para from an op-ed by a Notre Dame ethics professor Joseph Holt, published by CNN (“Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely the author’s.” Yeah, in a technical …
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We’ve got some pretty unpopular leaders
The current crop of Western leaders is failing to inspire the electorates much beyond their base. Is it just a coincidence, or do we live during particularly polarised and unsettled …
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Museum folds like a cheap t-shirt
Or a $19.97 long sleeve. Yesterday, a journalism website Poynter brought to everyone’s attention that a gift shop at Newseum (“the interactive news museum in Washington, D.C.”) is selling Donald Trump …
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Your party is full of conspiracy nuts, shout people who lionise socialists
Apparently a new menace is stalking the Trump base – though since the media-political complex considers all of them buck-toothed racist white trash, how much worse can it be? Celebrity …
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