“Decisions on aid are eroding trust and eroding relationships between the UK and developing countries.” Abby Baldoumas, Financial Times, July…
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“The gap between rhetoric and reality is a persistent one when looking at the sustainability of commitments of Olympic Games…
“Dear customers, if you are standing there reading this sign you are part of the problem. STAY THE FUCK HOME!…
The tyrannical, brutal cynicism of keeping Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison remains one of the more inglorious marks of the…
While Australian politicians languish in a world blotched by climate change scepticism and fossil fuel love-ins, global oil and gas…
In the messy, underhanded world of global health responses to COVID-19 it was only appropriate that lawyers should find themselves…
Summits often feature grand statements and needless fripperies. In Cornwall, the leaders of the G7 countries were trying to position…
This has been a fantasy of Danish governments for some time. There have been gazes of admiration towards countries like…
His comments would not have fallen on deaf ears. While metropolitan London would have been aghast at his pedigree and…
The interview was infamous, made his name and was bound to enrage. It also received a viewing audience of 23…
It should be making officials in the White House tremble. Critical infrastructure supplying 45% of the East Coast’s diesel, gasoline…
Being sufficiently able at your job is a good thing. But beware the trappings of zeal. When it comes to…
The very word is chilling, but has become normalised political currency in Denmark. Since 2010, the Danish government has resorted…
There was a time when it seemed Papua New Guinea had managed to dodge a bullet. Instances of SARS-CoV-2 were…
“I am not going to be talking about numbers today,” Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly told Australia’s Radio National…
When Nobel Laureates open their mouths in despair and anger, their observations tend to be worth noting. Immunologist Professor Peter…
Last week, Australians found themselves delighting in another fit of cancel culture, this time in the art world. Tasmania’s Dark…
Promises are very much made to be broken, and the Biden administration is proving to be no exception. In a…
The hallmark of any institution is the ability to withstand ironic dysfunction. The United States under the stewardship of that…
By now, anybody speaking about vaccine equality and equity of access must surely be coming across as slightly deranged. In…
It was a fittingly poor conclusion to a tournament that risked being cancelled, run to ground, or even rendered stillborn. …
Governments have an almost crippling trouble appreciating conflicts of interest. Since tentacle-heavy lobby groups decided to move into the world’s…
It’s the sort of stuff that should have been sorted years ago in Australia: a murderous, frontier society ill disposed…
Pity the public health official tasked with convincing those beyond convincing that a pandemic crisis is worthy of serious consideration. …
The decision to go ahead with the Australian Open, the first of the grand slams of the tennis calendar, was…
This was Twitter Safety’s January 8 post, full of noble concern: “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump…
The barrister-brewed humour of Edward Fitzgerald QC, one of the solid and stout figures defending a certain Julian Assange of…
For decades, the National Defense Authorization Act has been the lifeblood of the US imperium, guaranteeing a flow of money…
The mind changer in Downing Street has struck again. With UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the helm, changes of…
…The good news; we have the overwhelming support of youth votes….The bad news; the youth never bothers to vote–Anonymous Similar…