Dr Binoy Kampmark

Closed for Business: The Oddities of Trump’s Tariffs

Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by US President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion.…

2 months ago

For the Love of Landmines: European States Exit the Ottawa Convention

Paranoia manifests in various ways. It can eat away individuals in desperate solitude, whittling away sanity and balance. It can be…

2 months ago

Secrecy and Virtue Signalling: Another View of Signalgate

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of…

2 months ago

Authoritarian Politics: Netanyahu’s War on Israeli Institutions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts. He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas…

2 months ago

Trump’s Star Wars Revival: The Golden Dome Antimissile Fantasy

Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the…

2 months ago

Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding and the IOC

The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will…

2 months ago

Careless People, Meta and Restricting the Digital Town Square

There is much talk in this age of heaving tech behemoths about the digital town square, where views can be…

2 months ago

Back to Tried Failures: The New Offensive on Gaza

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your only option. This is proving very much to be the…

3 months ago

The Trauma Will Be Instagrammed: Wombat Handlings Down Under

The influencer might be defined as a modern, junked cretin of arrested moral and ethical capacity – with specific skills.…

3 months ago

The Script of Anxiety: Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination

With the Ukraine War and the retreat of the United States from what has routinely been called Europe’s security architecture,…

3 months ago

Sporting Contradictions: Athletes, the Olympics and Climate Change

The time has come for arguably the sporting world’s most famous mafia organisation to select its new chief. The various…

3 months ago

Militarising Europe: The EU Defence Spending Bug

We live in dangerous times, and politicians are happy to be cheerleaders of that supposed fact. They do not care…

3 months ago

Aggrieved Speculation: The Trump Illness Hypothesis

The critics are utterly beside themselves in trying to understand the bruising odds and turns of Donald J. Trump, the…

3 months ago

More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer’s Defence Spending Splash

The urge to throw more money at defence budgets across a number of countries has become infectious. It was bound…

3 months ago

Macron’s Offer: France and the Delusions of Nuclear Deterrence

The singular antics of US President Donald Trump, notably towards supposed allies, has stirred the pot regarding national security in…

3 months ago