It has become something of a fixation in the Donald Trump war chest of options that cowing, discomforting and baffling…
On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack.…
Frankfurt, January 26 It cuts against the grain of the Teutonic character. Instead of steely no-nonsense efficiency, we see gross…
Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting”…
Bugging, in the context of intelligence, is natural for the buggee. Those who approve it and engage in such a…
Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the Gaza…
In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end…
A stillborn agreement treated as thrivingly alive; an understanding celebrated as consensual and equal. The AUKUS security arrangement between Australia,…
On January 6, the Pentagon announced that it had “resettled” 11 Yemeni men to Oman after detaining them over two…
Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of…
“It was as if the West’s central philosophical commitment to limited government was extirpated by a crude economic determinism that…
It has been popular to see political and religious radicalisation as something oddly separable from institutions of state. State institutions…
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is in the news again. The release of Australian cabinet documents from 2004 –…
Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values. When given a chance,…
While international law can, at times, seem an ephemeral creature, vulnerable to manipulation, neglect and outright dismissal, its strictures can…