by PAUL COLLITS – THERE was a film made in the Sixties called Suppose They Gave a War and No None Came, directed by Hy Averback. Well, with apologies to Hy, sixty years on and there now seems a realistic chance that…
by DAVID FLINT – WHY are so many Western leaders lacking not only in principle, courage and foresight but also common sense? The worst is Biden, about whom Robert Gates says he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and…
by JURIS LAUCIS – WHILE the onslaught on Ukraine raged this week, President Joe Biden unleashed a salvo of devastating rhetoric, warning Putin that the US would steadfastly defend “every inch of NATO territory”. To soften the blow on the sensitive Russian…
by DAVID FLINT – WITH the launch of a war of aggression in the Ukraine by Russian dictator Putin, it is time now to make a serious reassessment of the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain. Who would have thought that this much-maligned…
by DAVID FLINT – EMPIRES can normally expect to survive for about ten generations, around 250 years, argued Glubb Pasha persuasively in The Fate of Empires. The imperial republic, as great French philosopher Raymond Aron described the United States, is the West’s great…
IS THE President of the United States completely incompetent or in serious cognitive decline? Or is something even worse? After a career of plagiarism, lying and opportunism and of no achievement but gaining office, it is not surprising that he would blame…
IN DIRECT contrast to Trump, Biden has shown himself curiously accommodating towards the Wests’ enemies. He has been particularly weak with China, justifying its human rights crimes as mere “cultural differences”.
UNTIL recently the sanity of anyone suggesting that the Wuhan virus could have come from a laboratory was put in issue … it is fascinating when reality catches up.
MEN in the Mirror, Sky News Australia’s excellent documentary by Chris Kenny on the awful similarities between those two prime ministerial disasters, Rudd and Turnbull, should be followed by one on the media’s role supporting their ascension and, in particular, the commentariat’s role in downing John Howard and Tony Abbott.
