by DAVID FLINT – THE world has never been in such a state. While a benign, admittedly imperfect alliance for good has existed since before the settlement of Australia in 1788 – originally British-led and now American – it now faces a…
by PAUL COLLITS – MY DEAR, late mother – before she succumbed to the inevitable senior’s mental deterioration, aka dementia – was a cryptic crossword aficionado. For whatever reason, I still remember one particular clue she once shared with me. It was…
by DAVID FLINT – EXILED Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi last week delivered a message that resonated: “You cannot reform a snake. Venom is in its DNA.” This is a truth which escaped all American presidents between Jimmy Carter down to Joe…
by DAVID FLINT – I WOULD like to paraphrase former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating. “I guarantee that if you walk into any pet shop in the West, or indeed the world, what the resident galah will be talking about is how…
by DAVID FLINT – DONALD Trump, whom history will surely judge as being among the greatest of US Presidents, has done what his predecessors either feared to do or did not even understand they had to do. It took one American president,…
by FRED PAWLE – THERE will be many things the newly freed and exuberant people of Iran will want to ask when (and if) their mullah overlords flee. First and foremost, someone needs to switch on their internet, which is currently blacked…
