This article is about the Roman Empire. However, the author wants to make clear that any resemblance in this article to any modern politicians, their decisions, vote-seeking, economic ignorance, stupid suggestions and the mess they might have contributed to getting us into, is entirely coincidental.
The only thing ‘humanitarian assistance’ in Afghanistan actually buys is a better-funded Taliban. What is extraordinary is that this came from the BBC. They didn’t need to fly across the world to find children going hungry, being abused, or being sold. Britain has all that on its own soil.
The reason both stories have been buried is that The Narrative must be maintained at all costs.
New Zealand’s “grave concerns” risk looking less like principled diplomacy and more like a performance of selective morality.
Greenland isn’t ‘rejecting crazy Trump’ – the grown ups are still talking.
For Helen Clark and much of the international activist class, universal values increasingly appear to come with one glaring exception: the Jewish state.
The fraying of the international rules-based order and various conflicts – either happening now or possible in the future – should see New Zealand preparing now. There are no excuses for inaction.
After years of limited responses to terrorists in Africa, Trump turns up the heat.
It’s a cause for optimism. The people running these institutions are finding out the hard way that everyone has a vote – at the ballot box, with their feet, and with their wallets.
