World Politics
This Should Not Be a Government Service
MAiD is the creation of a health system that cannot or will not provide “basic, standard” service. Covid devastated the medical profession’s reputation. The shreds that remain will not survive MAiD. Nor should they.
They Must Embrace ‘Populism’ To Survive
Personally, I’d ignore all the conventional wisdom from the political advisers who got the coalition into this mess and firstly apologise for past sins. Then I’d announce a host of clear, unwavering policies – while side-lining any coalition MP who votes against them.
When the Rules Fail
International law does not create states: it presupposes their existence. If powerful states conclude that the rules offer them no viable path to protect themselves, they will eventually abandon them.
Winning in Iran Requires More Than Military Success
The enduring challenge is ensuring that those actions are part of a coherent strategy that accounts for what follows.
What Will It Take to End War?
We take this as the price of the relative peace and prosperity we have come to expect. And yet it somehow doesn’t keep delivering peace and prosperity. Instead, we now have endless war and the privations and hardships that war necessarily entails.
Of Fuel and Fury
How can a government ministry blatantly fund political and ‘furious’ activism, yet there be so little media scrutiny? And why the fuel crisis should have been anticipated.
Something Unexpected and Wonderful Just Happened
X briefly lights up a darkening world with a trans-Pacific mutual love-in.
We Don’t Owe Africa Jack
Africans enslaved each other for centuries, then took our aid money for decades.
