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Pisa Poor & Paris Pettifogging

Be patient, this may look like another pathetic postulate, and peculiar plethora of alliteration, but the latter is an important…

climate talks, global emissions, Kyoto, Madrid, Paris, Paris pettifogging, PISA

Snowden Tells All

‘Permanent Record’ is Edward Snowden’s recent autobiography, and a fascinating insight into US government internet surveillance. The preface opening sets…

CIA, deep state, Edward Snowden, internet surveillance, NSA, spying

Scotty, beam us up?

Hmm, we may have found a diagnosis for the apparently wilful ignorance (‘denialism’ is resting today) of Our PM in…

pentecostal christians, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, scotosis

‘Hungary is Lost’

Subtitled:  Hungry in Hungary! Fleeting impressions from a recent visit to Budapest are confirmed in this eye-opening analysis of the…

Hungary, Viktor Orban

‘Banking Bad’

Guest commentator Matt Caine has prepared this review of a recent book by Adele Ferguson, whose journalistic investigations were instrumental in…

Adele Ferguson, Banking Bad, Banking Royal Commission

Ljubljana Love

Who put love in Slovenia, a pocket-sized country squeezed between Austria, Hungary, Italy and Croatia? While roaming central Europe, your…

architecture, Jose Plecnik, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Go Aussie Gunboats

As predicted, ScoMo has rushed to sign us up for a US mission in the Strait of Hormuz, by assigning…

Anzac myth making, Boer War, gunboat diplomacy, Henry Reynolds, persian gulf, strait of hormuz, Unnecessary Wars

Ten Years of News & Views!

Well, probably more views, but time has flown in a decade of strutting and fretting on the meejah stage, to…

10th anniversary

Damnation Dissent

What a helluva (hmm!) fuss Rugby player Israel (perfect first name) Folau stirred up with his damnation by Instagram of…

adulterers, atheists, damnation, fornicators, Hell, idolators, Israel Folau, liars, Rugby, thieves

War on Iran?

Oh no, here we go again – I have that sinking feeling in my stomach, or is it my blood…

China, Hugh White, Iran, ScoMo, Trump

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