Going platinum
In Competition No. 3251, you were invited to submit a poem to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee in the style…
Teal: the triumph of AWFUL
Political Anthropology is always fraught with pathologisation, condemnation, and character critiques; most of the mainstream media’s pieces about Donald Trump’s…
SA’s climate emergency: prepare for carbon footprint tracking
The new South Australian Labor government has declared a ‘climate emergency’. Climate lockdowns, surveillance of your ‘carbon footprint’, and restrictions…
When will companies end their embarrassing Pride hypocrisy?
June is Pride Month, the annual exercise in rainbow-washing, and if you listen very carefully you may even hear gay…
The witch trial of Amber Heard
For the first few weeks of watching Johnny Depp and Amber Heard attempt to turn each other into twelve cans of…
How are five million Brits without work?
Last week, I came across a figure so staggering that I was convinced it was wrong: 5.3 million Brits (almost…
The Queen is one Brit Macron can warm to
He may not have much respect forthe ‘Clown’, but when it comes to the Queen Emmanuel Macron is as smitten…
Boris looks doomed, but can he escape the inevitable?
Is Boris Johnson’s government about to fall apart? Twice since World War Two, Tory governments have broken up after a…
Is Emma Raducanu a one-hit wonder?
If there is one thing that could salvage this year’s Wimbledon it would be a decent showing by the tournament’s…
Naomi is not crying wolf
Major issues of the day tend to fall along political and ideological lines. But not always. Some matters are so…
The Pacific flirts with China at its own risk
Forewarned is forearmed… As China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, visits the nations of the Pacific, the rest of the world…
Customers won’t like the new energy game
Right now in Australia, we are seeing some smaller electricity retailers being forced out of the market and voluntarily shedding…
Voters put the ‘majors’ on notice
In this federal election, the Coalition and the freedom parties – Liberal Democrats, One Nation, and United Australia Party –…
Autocratic behaviour thrives in Western Australia
Western Australia’s Premier, Mark McGowan, recently launched a war of words on Peter Dutton after being asked by the media…
Macron vs the deep state
French diplomats are on strike today. But will anyone notice? Not to be immodest, I am especially well qualified to…
Where’s our world cup?
There was that frenetic drama of the last day of the Premier League just a fortnight ago – City down,…
What’s going on with the Russian economy?
The Russian economy is headed for its deepest recession since 1991. That’s the British government’s latest assessment of whether sanctions…
A knighthood for AstraZeneca
The French haven’t let go of their love for royalty entirely, it seems, as AstraZeneca Chief Executive Sir Pascal Soriot…
Why Georgia is going mad for Ukraine
Georgia seems to have gone Ukraine crazy since the outbreak of war in February. Taxi drivers have the Ukrainian flag…
Are republicans becoming an endangered species?
How disappointing. Come Jubilee time and the Guardian can usually be relied upon to lead the way in publishing sour…
Is Shakespeare racist?
Shakespeare’s Globe has a new wheeze to popularise its shows. The latest production, Henry VIII, is supported by a seminar…
Depp wins battle, but men are losing the war
Along with many around the world, I predicted Johnny Depp would win his defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Predictably, much…
How Poland came back from the brink
Poland is back. Not so long ago, the country was seen as an effigy of democratic backsliding, rather than a…
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is a tribute to her legacy
The most recognisable woman on the planet was once told by a customer in a shop at Sandringham that she…
Is Harry Styles really the new David Bowie?
There’s something ludicrous about old people trying to understand the pop music preferred by youth. Mind you, youth is relative…
