The Australian Broadcasting Corporation television show Gruen1, which examines the advertising industry, sometimes hilariously, is always entertaining. On a recent show telecast on Wednesday June 3rd, one of the regular…
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The very peculiar Chris Uhlmann has outdone himself with a piece in the Australian (where else?) entitled ‘Will Pauline Hanson be the Martin Luther of our time’1. While the title…
I was talking to a couple of former colleagues today, and what they were telling me about missing Law of the Sea data subsequent to their time in the organisation…
On its website, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) styles itself as the “world’s premier foreign intelligence agency”. It states that “the work we do at CIA is vital to U.S….
Often you will hear religious nutters try to give their weird beliefs a veneer of credibility by using scientific terminology. This is perhaps best exemplified by the use of the…
Late last year, I wrote a piece about the Ghost Shark, an extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle coming into service with the Royal Australian Navy. In that piece, I noted how…
ISIS, also known as Islamic State (IS) is a Sunni extremist group that emerged during the Iraq War and later seized large parts of Iraq and Syria. At the height…
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a landmark accord reached between Iran and several world powers, including the United States, in July 2015. Under this plan, Iran agreed…
Trump recently visited China, and praised Chinese President Xi Jinping, calling him a “great leader”. This was met with accusations of sycophancy and embarrassment from some who saw it as…
Some time ago, I wrote an item about lying in politics, and mentioned a proposal in Wales to outlaw political lying through legislation1. That legislation has now passed the Senedd…
We have booked to see the movie Quartet in a few days. It is a most enjoyable movie, which we saw perhaps a decade or so ago. The movie was…
The visit of King Charles III to the US has highlighted the galloping incompetence of the loyalist muppets seemingly in charge of everything in the Mango Mussolini’s regime. The District…
In November 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is based in The Hague, in the Netherlands, issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence…
There was a false fire alarm in the basement carpark of a block of units where I live. So, it was decided that a fire safety talk was to be…
As anyone who reads my stuff knows, we have a Hyundai Kona EV, and occasionally travel to Sydney to visit family. The first article I wrote was when we were…
I was talking to someone the other day about school shootings and they opined that many of them were committed by transgender people. They were adamant that this was the…
The three malevolent bastards causing the most death and destruction beyond the borders of their own nations at present are Putin, Trump and Netanyahu, and all of them are in…
You, Jillian Segal, have attempted to conflate criticism of the appalling behaviour of Israel in Gaza and now Lebanon and Iran, with antisemitism. This, I presume, is a desperate ploy…
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