As I said last week, truth is among the first casualties of war, with both sides manipulating narratives to suit themselves, ‘false flag’ operations, or simply telling lies to cover unpalatable events. Did Israel bomb the hospital in Gaza? My immediate reaction when I heard the news was that I doubted it. To bomb a…
Another tragedy is unfolding in the Middle East. Israel has been attacked again, this time by a bunch of well-organised terrorists who clearly believe absolutely in their cause. Since it is Hamas, that cause is to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. You’d think the Jews have had enough to put up with…
For the first three days of this week one would be entitled to believe that nothing in the world was happening except a round-ball football match between two national teams playing in the semi-finals of the Women’s World Cup. Aussie captain Sam Kerr’s calf muscle was the centre of attention and venues all over the…
The news in Australia is full of two things: the Brittany Higgins rape allegations and who in the parliament knew what when, and the latest outpourings on the up-coming Voice referendum. For my non-Australian readers, Brittany Higgins accused fellow ministerial staffer Bruce Lehrmann of raping her on a couch in the Defence Minister’s office. The…
There’s only one thing to talk about in this Saturday’s blog – the Voice. Today the Prime Minister revealed the question he will put to the Australian people in a referendum later this year. “A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
I’ve had a hard time coming up with anything in particular to write about this week, but there are a few things I noticed. Nicola Sturgeon has been forced to resign as the Scottish First Minister, not least because of the furore about a rapist who decided to transition to be a woman, who was…
The funeral is over, the Queen has been buried beside her parents, her sister, and her beloved husband. So ends the second Elizabethan era. I think history will treat this remarkable woman kindly. She lived through tumultuous times; the abdication of her uncle, the second world war, the death of her father when she was…