Flat White An editorial on Os Guinness’ vision for the future Krystle Mitchell Image provided by author.
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My new favourite word is ‘pusillanimous’ which seems to so rightly describe this mob of invertebrates and fence sitters we have somehow managed to elect into government. Take for example the term ‘antisemitism’, an ironic misnomer itself on the basis of etymology, evolving as it has as a descriptor of
World Michael Simmons Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England (Credit: Getty images)
World David Shipley HMP Wandsworth (Credit: Getty images)
World Gareth Roberts Keir Starmer and Olaf Scholz at Chequers, UK (Credit: Getty images)
If you are still reeling from the shock and awe created by Donald Trump’s foreign policy since taking office, ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet,’ as Ronald Reagan once put it. Trump doesn’t just want to reset trading relations with every country in the world. He wants the world to change
It’s been a lovely month so far for us free-thinkers, with the wokescreen tumbling down big-time. First the predicted winner of the Best ‘Actress’ Oscar – a biological man – was revealed to have been a bit of a social media ‘scamp’ in the past, with a soft spot for Hitler.
The implementation of hegemony, since the eclipse of British maritime Empire, has been the prerogative of the US. There have been variations on the theme – sometimes Hawks, sometimes Doves – but the essential nature of Geopolitics (and GeoEconomics) has been a symphony about ‘hegemony’. This has dominated US thinking
The lesson to learn about the American tariff war is that it is wiser to save what you have to bargain with until after the threats have been made. If the Albanese government thought by getting to Washington early they’d stave off tariffs against Australian steel and aluminium they now
In Australia, there are many ‘bad laws’ that seek to criminalise, rather than promote, free speech. For example, at the state level, we have the states’ Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Acts, which criminalise any advocacy of conversion practices, including any encouragement of teenagers to reverse their gender alteration
World Kunwar Khuldune Shahid Imam Muhsin Hendricks (Getty Images)
President Trump has been hard at work scrapping diversity courses stateside and international companies have followed suit – with Goldman Sachs and Deloitte some of the latest corporations to bin off their inclusion schemes. Whether the UK government will take a leaf out of Trump’s book is quite another matter,
Flat White An editorial on Os Guinness’ vision for the future Krystle Mitchell Image provided by author.
My new favourite word is ‘pusillanimous’ which seems to so rightly describe this mob of invertebrates and fence sitters we have somehow managed to elect into government. Take for example the term ‘antisemitism’, an ironic misnomer itself on the basis of etymology, evolving as it has as a descriptor of
World Michael Simmons Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England (Credit: Getty images)
World David Shipley HMP Wandsworth (Credit: Getty images)
World Gareth Roberts Keir Starmer and Olaf Scholz at Chequers, UK (Credit: Getty images)
If you are still reeling from the shock and awe created by Donald Trump’s foreign policy since taking office, ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet,’ as Ronald Reagan once put it. Trump doesn’t just want to reset trading relations with every country in the world. He wants the world to change
It’s been a lovely month so far for us free-thinkers, with the wokescreen tumbling down big-time. First the predicted winner of the Best ‘Actress’ Oscar – a biological man – was revealed to have been a bit of a social media ‘scamp’ in the past, with a soft spot for Hitler.
The implementation of hegemony, since the eclipse of British maritime Empire, has been the prerogative of the US. There have been variations on the theme – sometimes Hawks, sometimes Doves – but the essential nature of Geopolitics (and GeoEconomics) has been a symphony about ‘hegemony’. This has dominated US thinking
The lesson to learn about the American tariff war is that it is wiser to save what you have to bargain with until after the threats have been made. If the Albanese government thought by getting to Washington early they’d stave off tariffs against Australian steel and aluminium they now
In Australia, there are many ‘bad laws’ that seek to criminalise, rather than promote, free speech. For example, at the state level, we have the states’ Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Acts, which criminalise any advocacy of conversion practices, including any encouragement of teenagers to reverse their gender alteration
World Kunwar Khuldune Shahid Imam Muhsin Hendricks (Getty Images)
President Trump has been hard at work scrapping diversity courses stateside and international companies have followed suit – with Goldman Sachs and Deloitte some of the latest corporations to bin off their inclusion schemes. Whether the UK government will take a leaf out of Trump’s book is quite another matter,