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Scummo is what Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, was called yesterday by residents of a town that had just been devastated by fire including the loss of two lives. Gutless was my own addition seeing him utterly fail to engage with the people in…
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I must be the odd one out, the outsider, because a lot of stuff that others get passionate or worked up about flies right over my head. There is not enough time in my day to try following everything that happens let alone think about…
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President Trump personally ordered the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's elite military Quds force. He was killed by rockets fired from US drones over Baghdad Airport. This is unlawful by any standards, as well as an act of war. Iran has promised…
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No airborne chemical attack in Douma: that was the conclusion reached by Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inspectors on the ground in Syria. And that's the conclusion they passed on to their superiors within the supposedly independent UN organisation. But the OPCW…
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John le Carré’s 26th book, Agent Running in the Field, which, according to the publishers, is David Cornwell’s (le Carré’s real name) take on Brexit, suggests a dystopian future for European liberal democracies in a post-Brexit world. Sadly likely to be one of his last, given…
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2019 was the worst year for the left since 1979. By then, NZ Labour had lost, Aussie Labor had been removed, and UK Labour trounced. In 2019, once-mighty forces of reform and redistribution were set back from ranked power contenders to journeymen on the punching…
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I've been thinking about the 2020s as the decade of deep, life affirming change. Tempting to think of it as the do or die decade, but am mindful of Micky's post yesterday, The Power of Positive Campaigning. He looked at the importance of framing party…
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