All nations have shadows; some acknowledge them. For others they shape their image in uncomfortable ways.
Read MoreOpening Pandora’s American Box
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Bob Dylan, COVID-19, Trump and Murder Most Foul
COVID-19 has exposed Trump as not up to the job and America as a failing state. None of this is good for America or the world. Bob Dylan’s Murder Most Foul captures the mood of the times.
Read MoreDavos Man Returns Home Ready to Make a Difference
If we want things to stay the same, something has to change.
Note. What follows is fiction, except for the facts.
Read MoreAre you Relevant?
Relevant: Adjective
Closely aligned with or appropriate to what is happening
Appropriate to the time, period, or circumstances; of contemporary interest
Critics may find it difficult to say relevant in a changing world.
The Sizzle and the Sausage
Is the public debate underpinned by quality journalism or is it dumbing down?
Read MoreDemocracy is Not Just Voting
The Way the Voting is Organised Matters Too.
Read MoreUneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Global Crown
Trump’s interactional strategy – such as it is – is leaving opportunities that others are filling.
Read MoreImbalanced Trade
Trump is going to war for the wrong reasons
Read MoreBetter a Banker in Rolls Royce than a Fascist in a Tank
The new President of France, Emmanuel Macron, wants French people to "embrace the future". Time will tell if he can make that possible, but his is a better message than the Trumps of this world who want to embrace the past
Read MoreSuffer the little children to come unto Trump
Trump and his enablers tell us bombing a Syrian air-force base was driven by humanitarian principles. It was not. It was about ratings.
Read MoreThe United States of Guns and Racism
Last week's executions in the United States - of five police officers and two young black men at point blank range - should have the shock value to wake up that nation, but it won't. Politics has immediately taken hold, with the black president a sitting target. Apparently it was his job to fix racism because he's black. Apparently he has failed.
Read MoreGrumbling
Responses to the flag referendum and the TPPA have parallels overseas such as supporting Trump in the US and Brexit in Britain. A sizeable proportion of the population think that the government is not listening to them and doesn’t care about them.
Read MoreTrump Panic
As Donald Trump stays way out front in the Republican nomination race, the party hierarchy is in full fret and could have run out of time to stop its current worst nightmare. The next few days will be crucial for the party base, and the privileged old guard.
Read MoreThe Apogee of the Authentic?
New Hampshire, the so-called Granite State, was rocked to its political core Tuesday with outsiders Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders trampling all around them to win the latest hurdle in the long battle for the job of Leader of the Free World. A scary thought indeed.
Read MoreTrump or be Trumped
Donald Trump appears to have set the chickens on the fox with his decision to snub Thursday's Fox News Republican debate. Will anyone tune in now the ringmaster of this circus has gone rogue…well more rogue?
Read MoreHeaven's help and the US Primaries
As Donald Trump hits a new poll high of 41% just days before the Iowa Caucus, it beggars belief that he's now hoodwinked God's rather large Republican Evangelical army, and is going to take the first prize in the caucus/primaries. At least it is entertaining.
Read MoreFrom Great Satan to Lesser Satan…not if Republican nominee hopefuls have their way
You would never know from the Republican Presidential nominee hopefuls that they have lost their battle to defeat Obama on the Iran nuclear deal….but electioneering is not known for being mindful of facts.
Read MoreThe extraordinary likeness of Trump and Corbyn
While Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn are blindingly different politicians, their current and probably short-lived attraction to their respective bases is eerily similar in the world of anger politics.
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