Impeached but secure
So on 18 December 2019 Donald Trump became the third US President to be impeached by the House of...
Category: USA
Greta Thunberg’s call for action
Greta Thunberg was announced yesterday as Time magazine’s person of the year prompting the usual online spite: This from...
Climate change is the largest threat humanity has ever faced.
Some things just need to be said: but I do not think that the message is getting through. And...
“We have now become fearless”
Denise Ho testified yesterday at the United States’ Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) in Washington DC: this was her...
Remember the days when the President was presidential
Photo by MediaPunch/Shutterstock (9959292ay) Barack Obama – Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson campaign event, Miami, USA – 02 Nov 2018...
Olin’s 2019 Commencement ceremony
Four years passes so quickly. From that first family day weekend back in October 2015 to last weekend’s graduation....
Boeing’s MAX crisis
Last night ABC Australia released the following investigation on its 60 Minutes prime time investigative reporting program. Do watch....
Wide-eyed wonder – 50 years on
This is the news tribute to Apollo 8 from CBS. The spaceflight responsible for arguably the most iconic picture...
The Saudi admission of Khashoggi’s murder insults our intelligence
Overnight the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs put out this statement in English arguing, preposterously, that Jamal Khashoggi was...
Khashoggi’s last Washington Post column – his honesty cost him his life
I have re-published this op-ed from today’s Washington Post unedited and in full. Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen...