Oriental Wisdom

Redolent of a bygone Western imperialist era of learning and borrowing Eastern concepts, the term often covers yin & yang, … More

Hispanics Hurrah

As a schoolboy rugby player, soccer has always been soccer for me, but I accept that the recent World Cup … More

Anne Whitehead relates the engaging story of the unlikely meeting in 1815 on the island of Saint Helena, of thirteen … More

SpaceX shares floated just last week and have since ‘slumped’ US$800 billion in value, which is equal to the GDP … More

Subtitled A portrait of the world before the war 1890-1914, by Barbara Tuchman, it is an impressive history of the … More

Ex-CIA boss James Comey has been indicted by the US Department of Justice for threatening to kill the President with … More

Hungary has massively rejected veteran autocrat Orbàn and his oligarchy at the ballot box, despite his controlled state and private … More

What an extraordinary juxtaposition of US mastery and impotence on display today. Irony does not begin to describe the yawning … More

George Orwell’s 1984 as shorthand to signify totalitarian control of society and the malign pervasive rule of ‘Big Brother’ have … More

Since we’re talking about shortcomings of Australian PMs, a recent release of Federal Cabinet papers from 2005 definitively nails one … More