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Kardashian vs Turkey

We have to temporarily suspend our strict anti-celebrity guideline, to recognise Kim’s strategic influence on world diplomacy.  Not Jong-Un of…

Armenian genocide, Kim Kardashian, US Senate Turkey resolution

Blade Runner 2019

An apocalyptic description and harrowing experience of the Harbour City aka Sydney during the dark, smoke-covered days of recent weeks…

Blade Runner, Mark Mordue, Sydney smoke-covered

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

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