Neo Nazis are again on the march in Australia. The National Socialist Network is looking more professional than previous scrofulous…
China & Chumps
His Magnificence King Donald will no doubt get bored eventually with this whole tariffs caper, but I reckon it’s timely…
The Mystery of Artur Loureiro
While viewing an exhibition of European paintings in a Porto (Portugal) art gallery two years ago, I was surprised to…
‘The Brilliant Outsider’
The compelling biography of George Ingle Finch by Robert Wainwright is aptly subtitled ‘the boy from the bush who set…
Fateful Footsteps
Intro Reflecting some years ago on dramatic political developments in countries I had visited from the 1970s on, I noticed…
Democracy Dump (by) Trump
Planet-threatening DDT is sprayed worldwide by one unhinged individual following his base authoritarian ‘instincts’. That last word comes from the…
Pyramid Plonk Passé
Aesthetic vindication can take decades to arrive, but last week in Paris my original judgement of the Louvre’s (in)famous glass…
WhyTwoKay, WayToGo
Last month twenty-five years ago the Y2K computer bug was threatening armageddon on 31 December, by melting down the world’s…
Nuclear Rubbish
The Federal Opposition finally announced some lightweight details of its risible collective thought bubble about throwing Australia’s power switch to…
Fester Season (Revised)
(My original piece has been revised below, as I’ve reconsidered crime numbers in the light of Mark Twain’s famous maxim…
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