In a footnote to yesterday’s post, Yanis Varoufakis on China-US tensions, I wrote: My approval of Yanis is guarded and circumscribed but I was still dismayed to see him play to the gallery at Canberra with allusions – as if … Read More »
Mull a moment, if you will, on the above. Generation-Z, aka zoomers, were born between late ’90s and early 2010s. As such the Western subset – the one for which, when all is said and done, the term was coined … Read More »
It’s rare for me to have a good word for Piers Morgan, a combative corporate media interviewer in his way reminiscent of Jeremy Paxman, while I often cite approvingly Professor Mearsheimer. A leading exponent of political realism, his prescient warnings … Read More »
Forgive my speaking with a little less of that nuance and gentleness of tone which has long won friends, influenced people and earned untold plaudits for my skills as a true-born diplomat. It’s even possible I may today come across … Read More »
To cheers from the crowd outside the Royal Courts of So-Called, a silver Mercedes driver honks furiously … … but she’s the exception. There’s no shortage of horn play but it’s mostly from work vehicles. A 76 toots as it … Read More »