National socialism with Chinese characteristics
Beijing doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer
The end of the affair
China and Australia have filed for divorce
Pax Sinica interruptus
Has China awakened a sleeping giant?
Aussiexit
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Brexit decision on June 23, 2016, was that a majority of voters…
Trump’s red line
One of the revelations of the 14 April military attack on three government sites in Syria by the United States,…
Trump, the revolutionary
It’s no easy job keeping up with the 45th presidency. Events occur in a perpetual whirlwind. Presently, the shock of…
Provocateur-in-Chief
The sin of provocation, Turkish President Erdogan helpfully explained in January 2015, was when mischief-makers fomented ‘hatred and enmity’ in…
The deep swamp
Bill and Hillary Clinton are not unlike Lord and Lady Macbeth. For the better part of twenty-five years these two…
Draining Donald Trump
Big Brother is now stage centre in American political life. The recent appearance in the Washington Post of the transcript…
Trump the revolutionary
Donald J. Trump is a revolutionary no less than the late Fidel Castro. Why should military fatigues be de rigueur? It’s only a…
A spittoon’s worth of bigots
We are all racists now. Noel Person tells us so. The “hard bigotry” of Quadrant conservatism has merged with the “soft bigotry” of the ABC. The two have met in “the common…
