Who’s Making You Sweat – and Why?
A spotlight on the Burnett Foundation’s upcoming ‘fundraiser’ that is much more than it appears.
World Politics
When Recognition Requires No Responsibility
This imbalance does not advance peace. It entrenches dysfunction and systems that structurally reward political dysfunction rarely produce functional political outcomes.
Nash, Cabinet Confidentiality and Peters’ Standards
Has misconduct stopped mattering, or is it another case of amnesia?
Ancient Rome’s Benefits Doom Loop
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 BBC Wants To Make the Taliban Great Again
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.
White Lives Don’t Matter
The reason both stories have been buried is that The Narrative must be maintained at all costs.
Now Do Palestine
New Zealand’s “grave concerns” risk looking less like principled diplomacy and more like a performance of selective morality.
The Orange and the Green Are Getting on Fine
Greenland isn’t ‘rejecting crazy Trump’ – the grown ups are still talking.