Mike Pezzullo’s mea culpa should convince no-one that he understands the seriousness of his breaches of the Code of Conduct or the responsibilities that go with being a departmental secretary. He still seems not to appreciate the fundamental Westminster principle of the separation of politics from administration. He blurs the two in his claim that Continue reading »
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Sorry, economists, people like A Future Made in Australia, the long-term story of violence against women, the case for liberal education, why Jack Welch would have been the ideal RBA governor. Read on for the weekly roundup of links to articles, podcasts, reports and other media on current economic and political issues. Australia’s economic transformation Continue reading »
In 2025 Australians are due to vote in another federal election, this time to elect their nation’s 48th parliament. In past elections Australians have been required to cast their votes in favour of whatever candidates might stand for office. But those candidates have always set their own agendas and their electoral tactics have relied on Continue reading »
Former foreign minister Jeremiah Manele has been elected the next prime minister of Solomon Islands, defeating the opposition leader, Matthew Wale, in a vote in parliament. The result is a mixed bag for former prime minister Manasseh Sogavare’s Ownership, Unity and Responsibility (OUR) Party. The party won just 15 of 50 seats in last month’s election. But Continue reading »
“There is absolutely no reason for Biden to be involved in this,” said one analyst. “But once again, Biden steps in to protect Netanyahu from the consequences of the war crimes he commits.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly growing increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court is preparing to issue arrest warrants for Continue reading »
A new consensus emerges.
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Disney+ posted a mini-teaser for Doctor Who and a look at Ncuti Gatwa & Millie Gibson's NYC visit. Plus, Gatwa has a message for Whovians.
Of course you’ve heard about Noem’s disgusting tale about gleefully shooting her puppy. And it’s possible that you’ve heard that she claims in her book to have “stared down” Kim Jong Un, which is a blatant lie. And now here’s another one. She says that Nikki Haley threatened her. Playbook reports: The way Noem tells the story, in the summer of 2021 she “was hauling a trailer full of horses” when she got word that Haley wanted to talk. Here’s how Noem recounts the conversation: “‘Hi, Governor, this is Ambassador Nikki Haley, and I just wanted to introduce myself and have a conversation. I just wanted to let you know that I follow you quite a bit. I have heard quite a bit about you, and you are doing a good job there in South Dakota. I was thinking that maybe you might like a mentor, and maybe I could be someone who could do that for you. Because you’re a governor, you’ve gone through some challenging things that I did as well.
Insider reports reveal ominous preparations for a massive military operation in Yemen, with US and UK forces backed by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE poised for aerial and ground assaults on Yemeni territory.
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Yes, fine, kaadu egg on my face—I unwittingly designed a planet-destroying, fully armed, and operational battle station. But put yourself in my shoes: you’re a mid-tier, ambitious architect, and you get singled out of your whole firm, Coruscant Skyline Legacy, to design the biggest, baddest, bestest galactic RESORT FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL ever conceived… I don’t think you’d be asking too many questions either. Soldiers deserve respite!
You would have said yes too. The Emperor paid 100,000,000 credits. That paid off my mortgage, a winter home on Tatooine (I’m a snowbird, I know), future Galactic Upper Education tuition for the little ones, and an absurdly cozy retirement. I could have spent my life designing block condominiums. Big bantha yawn. Instead, I took the opportunity of a lifetime.
His Big Lie is the gift to the Democrats Donald Trump was all over the place in his big TIME Magazine interview this week but there is one issue on which he’s never wavered. When asked if he thought there would be violence around the election this fall he said, “if we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.” On Wednesday he went even further, telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “if everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that. If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.” It’s pretty clear that in his mind and the minds of his followers there is no such thing as an honest and fair election that doesn’t result in a Donald Trump victory so there’s little doubt about what to expect if they don’t get their way in November. Over the past three years Trump’s Big Lie has become the main organizing principle of the Republican Party. There had been a festering sense of grievance and resentment among the GOP base for decades which Trump skillfully tapped into.
Discrepancies between married names and maiden names on IDs caused problems for some voters, but not others on Thursday – suggesting the rules were not applied consistently
Julius Nyerere, socialist leader of the Tanganyikan African National Union, and future first president of independent Tanzania, wrote for Tribune shortly before his 1960 election as chief minister of a British colony on the cusp of self-government. In the article ‘The Future of African Nationalism’, Nyerere identified the ‘struggle against colonial domination’ as an ‘essential’ […]
Maybe we need a movie? We suffer from a failure of imagination, Tom Nichols argues, about what a second Trump administration would actually look and feel like. It’s not that the clues aren’t there. They are. Trump told us again in his Time interview this week: In the interview, Trump once again promised to pardon the January 6 insurrectionists; once again, he vowed to use the Justice Department as his personal legal hit squad. He said he will prosecute Joe Biden, deport millions of people, and allow states with newly strict abortion regulations to monitor pregnant women. He will kneecap NATO and throw Ukraine to the Russians. […] Nostalgia and presentism are part of politics. But a second problem is even more worrisome: Americans simply cannot imagine how badly Trump’s first term might have turned out, and how ghastly his second term is likely to be. Our minds are not equipped to embrace how fast democracy could disintegrate.
Climate change and overfishing are decimating sardines in the Philippines.
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An unflinching look at the parallels between Israeli atrocities and Western crimes, exposing the systemic violence inherent in US foreign policy.
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The change to First Past the Post is expected to benefit Conservatives like Susan Hall, who might win fewer second preference votes than Labour
The intelligence community is using consumer tracking tools to spy on student protesters and everyone else they deem a threat.