Dr Binoy Kampmark, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

Demagogue Stunt: Nigel Farage’s By-Election Gambit

8 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Nigel Farage is not a picture of happiness. As Britain’s version of Trumpism (only a version, never a facsimile), the leader of Reform UK had been flying high in the polls. But his themes are […]

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World Cup Trump Cards: Infantino, FIFA and the Meddlesome US President

7 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Yet again, FIFA, and its chief, Gianni Infantino, have distinguished the game of football by showing what it is all about. Not glorious athletes representing code and country across the globe. Not the sense of […]

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Scrutinising The Unpardonable: The AUKUS Public Inquiry So Far

5 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 25

In the annals of policy, strategy and budgeting, the AUKUS pact comprising Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States will be seen as one of the most mindless, absurd projects of tiny, poorly furnished […]

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Laboratory Politics: Monoculture Down Under

4 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Words can function as prisons and windows. They can cage meaning and suffocate understanding. They can also reveal concepts which breathtaking clarity. “Monoculture”, a recent word running through the podcast-press corps stable down under, is […]

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White Flag Judgments: Palestine Action, Protest and the UK Courts

1 July 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

The justice system of the United Kingdom, represented by stout cathedral structures and solemn rituals, tends to resemble a casino rather than a priestly haven of solemn judgment. It’s the justice of the punt, the […]

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Independents Be Wary: The Teals and the Hemlock of Party Politics

30 June 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The obsession, one verging on pathological, with political parties is producing its share of symptoms. These include, amongst others, cynicism, a general loathing by the electorate, a suspicion about a lack of independence among its […]

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Adding to Failure: Amending Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban

28 June 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

When something is not working, abandon it. The policy maker and politician, the latter often inclined to populist temptation and the endless tapping for votes, will decide to make a state of wrongheadedness even worse. […]

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Ironic Fates: Bolton, Trump and Mishandling Classified Documents

27 June 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Former US national security advisor John Bolton and the President Donald J. Trump share traits neither probably knew they had. The latter, for one, is far more war mongering than he let on to American […]

Starmer Begone: Another Dud Leaves Number 10

24 June 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 10

It is one of the most remarkable ways to fall from grace. Leading British Labour to a deceptively crushing victory over diddling, muddling, decrepit fools. Asserting a period of stable rule, if not exactly dull […]

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Leasing Sovereignty: Gina Rinehart’s Ravings on Israel, Taiwan and Elon Musk

23 June 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Israeli defence personnel and politicians might not be top billing in the boardrooms and reception halls of many countries at the moment, but that hardly bothers Australia’s richest (and continuously enriched) figure, Gina Rinehart. With […]

The Cult of Banderism: The UPA and Poland-Ukraine Relations

22 June 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Whatever the high-minded rhetoric and spirited calls to guarding civilisation against oriental barbarism, the ongoing support and funding of Ukraine in its military struggle with Russia, is becoming a less than harmonious one. A hard […]

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Lion’s Den Politics: Pauline Hanson at the National Press Club

21 June 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

Pauline Hanson has been a fixture of Australian politics since 1996, when she appeared with piercing, shrill bravado as the federal member for Oxley, having been disendorsed for making remarks about Aboriginals by the Liberal […]

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Nasty Fictions: The Global University Ranking System

19 June 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Ranking universities remains a misleading, fatuous exercise as useful as comparing the tasteful qualities of, say, dependable Russian piroshki with those of an aromatic beef rendang. Chalk and cheese; apples and oranges. But this nasty […]

Emulated Silliness: The UK Under-16 Social Media Ban

17 June 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Never make laws regarding the unmeasurable and the uncontainable. The silliness of these injunctive measures can only come back and bite. Prohibit brothels, and decent whoring goes into, quite literally, dens of unmonitored squalor, lacking […]

Back to Bad Beginnings: The Iran-US Memorandum of Understanding

16 June 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Let us, if only briefly, give thanks for the peacemakers, whatever their poor qualifications and whatever folly drove them to war in the first place. On June 15, the secretariat of Iran’s Supreme National Security […]

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