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…
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A single premise has always held constant about Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, generations of Israeli leadership and its Zionist society - cowardice, duplicity and manufactured victimhood have become the defining characteristics of a political and military establishment addicted to violence, manipulation and perpetual war. Everything about Israel reflects a state consumed by paranoia, evil, vengeance and an almost obsessive pursuit of dominance at any cost. Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and now Iran underscore a pattern that has remained disturbingly consistent for decades: overwhelming force inflicted on civilians, the weaponisation of Western media narratives, and the endless invocation of existential fear to justify actions much of the world now views as morally bankrupt and strategically catastrophic.
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…