Month: July 2025

Platformed and Abandoned: How Australia Keeps Failing Disabled Commuters – And Who Gets Away With It By someone who’s watched the train leave the platform, again The latest blow in Australia’s ongoing war on accessibility […]

Having coffee with a friend who had recently returned from holidaying in Northern Ireland, a visit ‘home’ catching up with childhood friends and reviving old relationships, my friend commented about the on-going political divide in […]

Welcome to the United States of America. Please Hand Over Your Phone, Your Password, and Your Thoughts There was a time when flying to America meant enduring a 17-hour flight, bad airline food, and a […]

By Lachlan McKenzie, for The Smouldering Pillbox Weekly It all started, as these things so often do, with a tweet. Or maybe a screenshot of a tweet. Or maybe a screenshot of a screenshot of […]

By lands where river-reeds grow en mass and egrets wheel in flight, The wetlands dream beneath the sun and stir beneath the night. Not idle swamps, but living veins that pulse through field and fen, […]

Here is the link to Part 1 A couple of people have asked me why I don’t like Donald Trump. “Sure, he’s rough around the edges,” they say. “But don’t you admire his strength? His […]

Last month President Trump escalated Middle East tensions by launching a bombing raid on Iranian nuclear facilities, declaring his military endeavour a resounding triumph, despite the absence of any concrete evidence to support his claims. Addressing […]

At the hush of dusk where the she-oaks sway and shimmer in the heat, Where red dust curls like whispered smoke aside a traveller’s feet, There comes a sound both strange and vast, like strings […]

If there’s one thing more reliable than a Murdoch headline claiming Western civilisation is under threat, it’s Sky News finding new and exciting ways to blame Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for absolutely everything, everywhere, all […]