Troubled land
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.– Rudyard Kipling, ‘Letters from the East’,…
Falling out of love with Jordan Peterson
I was not the only free speech worrier to fall for Jordan Peterson, the Canadian academic who first came to…
Australian diary
Geneva seems oblivious to the end-of-winter freeze that has paralysed other parts of Europe. The trains and trams continue to…
The race for the UN’s top job
When I joined the UN in the early 1990s one of my many surprise encounters was with a large portrait…
Migration diary
I lived in Geneva for most of the 1990s but arriving by plane on a clear spring day has never…
When it comes to free speech, we’re all hypocrites
Like a few of his other ‘principled’ policies, Tony Abbott’s commitment to revising the legislative prohibition against insulting or offending…
Surrogacy Notes
Even the most ardent supporters of surrogacy admit that the present situation in Australia is a mess. Commercial surrogacy is…
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