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…
Aussie Energiewende
Energiewende is used to describe German national strategy for transition to a climate-neutral energy system, including closure of nuclear plants…
Trumped Again
Think of the time we all wasted before the recent US elections reading poll experts and pundits all agreeing that…
‘Prophet Song’
Apparently Australians have a book buying frenzy in the period before Christmas, generating 70% of annual bookshop sales from October.…
Japan Primer
Japan is a fascinating country, that we visited in July. Aussies are flocking to the ‘Thinking Man’s Bali’. The mix…
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