For those wittering on about how Glastonbury festival shouldn’t ‘be political’, and it was better when it was ‘ just a music festival’, my university dissertation circa 2001 is available in no good bookshops.

Rod Stewart being a Farage fan is like finding out Jimmy Barnes is a One Nation voter.

Here's something I wrote for the Australian Institute for Community Directors. www.communitydirectors.com.au/articles/hyp...

Trump’s USA has arrived at its Tiananmen Square moment.

So will Donny be handing back the keys to the Tesla Musk gifted him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ange maintains his incredible second season trophy record but unfortunately it’s unlikely to be enough to save his job.

Two t-shirts for today which is not only the federal election but also World Press Freedom Day. Imagine how boring my wardrobe would be without my union swag.

No wonder Dutton is Trump-lite … Trump’s campaign manager has been advising him.

Thanks to Dylan Bird, host of Future Perfect on 3RRR 102.7FM, for this thoughtful interview about Brunswick Voice and hyperlocal news media thus morning. www.rrr.org.au/shared/broad...

Lucky Trump's yes men on the Supreme Court ruled that POTUS is above the law, otherwise he'd be looking at serious jail time for insider trading after today's performance.

#Breaking on Fox News: Trump has just released a trove of previously secret documents that prove JFK was killed by Biden and Obama.

“The free world needs a new leader.” Exactly. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

You cannot count on Trump’s America as your friend. Deal with him at your peril. Seek alliances that do not include the US. Governments should have been developing contingency plans for this over the past three months. If they haven’t, they have failed their people.

A decisive psychological shift needs to occur in global foreign relations: the US is not our ally. They are not our enemy, but we no longer share the same values. Regardless of their size, that’s how we should treat them: one voice among many.

ICYMI while Elon was hanging out with the Nazis at CPAC on Thursday, the mother of his chikdre posted this …

It’s looking more and more like Trump is Putin’s man in Washington.

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) strongly opposes the Australian Government’s decision yesterday to deport members of the NZYQ cohort to Nauru. This move sets a dangerous precedent, raising serious concerns about human rights and fairness. asrc.org.au/2025/02/17/h...

Israel is trying to soften world opinion for a full siege & eradication of Gaza's civilian population. Follow these statements to the logical conclusion, & you cannot see any other outcome. And they know they can do it with impunity cosTrump is 100% behind them. www.theage.com.au/world/middle...

@mebankau.bsky.social I have been attempting to transfer money between two ME Bank accounts and both the app and website are not working. Can you advise when they will be functional again as it is quite urgent.

News outlets getting in a lather about Trump’s EO about the ICC need to bear in mind the US has never ratified the ICC, so like most things he says and does it’s irrelevant hot air. But once again, due to gullible media, he’s hit the headline he wanted.

If the rule about reporting on Trump is treat seriously what he does, not what he says, then why report his Truths. He uses them to “fill the zone with shit” and they should be treated as such. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Can anyone show me any evidence that Peter Lalor has ever once mentioned Gaza in his cricket writing or commentary? No, I didn’t think so.

So after meeting Bibi today, Trump has just confirmed he wants to see Gaza ethnically cleansed, all Palestinians who were born or lived there before Oct 7, 2023, removed from the land that has been theirs for thousands of years, presumably give Israel a blank slate to build new settlements there.

Who knew Kyle Sandilands had a brain? www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...

With the Jan 6 pardons, Trump now has an army of violent thugs who he can unleash on his political enemies with impunity.

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

Flagging ratings for the TV network which owns both the newspaper and the rights to the tennis see The Age devote pages 2-5 to the Australian Open in the vain hope this will boost interest in the tournament. “Independent always”?

If Rudd was worth his salt as an ambassador, he’d tell this rabbi not to interfere in domestic Australian affairs. www.theage.com.au/national/rab...

I’ll be posting this today

Dutton has declared he wants to be Australia’s version of Putin. Let that sink in.

Gina wants Australia to be more like Argentina, so Peter Dutton struts as a Caudillo. It’s not an enticing prospect. Albanese’s timidity is a problem, but Dutton’s authoritarian populism is no solution. #auspol

They should have to pay back every cent. Taxpayers shouldn’t be finding private schools at all. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Mate, R U OK?

LOL. Astroturf alert!

Poor Donny, forced to deny (unconvincingly) he’s Musk’s puppet. www.theage.com.au/world/north-...

Coffeea at the Vic Market has closed down today. Another institution gone. I can’t remember a time going to the market when it wasn’t there on Elizabeth Street.

The Age now running opinion pieces by Jacinta Price …

All things being equal, Werribee should have gone Liberal years ago. It will this byejection and will probably stay that way for some time if not forever. It’s the western suburbs equivalent of seat like Casey or La Trobe.

I’ll say it here now: Jaiswal’s Perth century was a fluke and he will not make another 50 this series. He’s a classic tourist who looks world class at home but falls back to the pack in Australian conditions.

There’s a simple reason why the US health system is so bad and unaffordable: Republicans have consistently blocked reforms that would introduce universal, government-subsidised health insurance as is the norm just about anywhere else.

Funny how you can sometimes have a completely different response to an album years later than you had when you first listened to it. Case in point, the White Stripes' 2005 release 'Get Behind Me Satan'. At the time, I hated it, probably because it wasn't 'Elephant II'.

Is it possible the Australian politico-media class is getting played by nazis and these attacks have nothing to do with Gaza but deep-rooted white supremacist fascist antisemitism?

Coverage of Albanese’s visit to the Ripponlea synagogue has conveniently ignored that the heckler in chief was right wing provocateur Avi Yemeni.

Two thoughts about the Ripponlea synagogue attack: 1) Dutton's attempts to link this to allowing refugees from Gaza into Australia are reprehensible. If the culprits are caught, 99.9% likely that they haven't come from Gaza in the past 14 months.

People on X celebrating the murder of a father and husband on a New York street. Proof positive why that platform is cooked.

The American political system is cooked. Any system that allows its elected leader to hand out pardons like an emperor is well past its use by date.

What kind of society tolerates the expenditure of more than $100 million of taxpayers' money per annum on an event that loses more than $8 million a year, but also cuts the hours of early career nurses by a quarter because its public hospitals lack the funding to employ them four days a week?

Heard an acquaintance complaining about cost of living pressures: they have jut renovated their second (holiday) house; spent two weeks in Bali with their three adult children and their partners; celebrated a joint 50th birthday with 80 guests they paid for at an expensive cocktail bar ...

Hey at @woolworths.bsky.social, how’s that strike going? Shelves are looking pretty bare. @unitedworkers.org.au #ausunions