Love all these restaurants in #Beijing now that look like they’re from #HongKong 1970s movies… #China

Taylor muscles up to Hanson’s racist populism (finally). Peter Magyar rescues Hungarian honour (and democracy). Pope Leo directly takes on the Musk-Trump squid. US Democrats and UK Labour switching to actual progressives. Glimpses perhaps of a less awful future?

Had a great chat about Angertainment with @markgkenny.bsky.social and @marijataflaga.bsky.social on Australia's best #auspol podcast, tune in wherever you usually do that for podcasts

Is social media now a more powerful force reshaping Australian democracy than any politician, party, or policy? Hear from author of 'Angertainment' @edcoper.bsky.social on the latest ep of #DemocracySausage w/ @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social. 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

And now, a state byelection in Hastie’s federal electorate?

"Under Peter Dutton, surrendering the cities was always a high-risk strategy. Under Taylor it is several orders of magnitude crazier because the rural-regional base has already slipped from the Coalition." #AUViews 📰 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/opinion... @markgkenny.bsky.social @canberratimes.bsky.social

Fresh #DemocracySausage is out! 🌭🎙️ @zalisteggall.bsky.social & @allegraspender.bsky.social join @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social to unpack the launch of Community Strong Australia — its logic, its irony, & whether teal voters will get on board. 🎧 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

It seems likely that this will be looked back on as the last chance the once dominant Liberal Party had to defend its liberalism. Yet it refused, appeased, surrendered

Flattening out modern, diverse Australia. What a dismal, unpatriotic mission.

The Coalition continues to bowl Nerf balls at One Nation and call it body line. Not hard to see where its real sympathies are

This umpiring

Presumably, Barnaby Joyce is referring to "gotcha questions" to Pauline Hanson such as: 'What is your policy on [insert almost anything here]?' #auspol

Thank you for writing this, and thanks for posting, it’s great. I hope many read it and prepare. Once upon a time this kind of discontent would take five years to get here, now it takes five minutes. I hope we’re ready.

Foments to remember from a politics of anger

"If Hanson rates governmental accountability so lowly that even when she could use it to her advantage, she goes missing, imagine her contempt for being answerable herself were she PM." #AUViews #auspol 📰👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/opinion... by @markgkenny.bsky.social via @canberratimes.bsky.social

Fresh #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ episode just dropped! Rüçhan Kaya, A/Prof of Political Science @austincollege.bsky.social, joins @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social to discuss the drift towards popularism & nationalism in liberal democratic countries. 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

The end game approaches …

A federal election is two years away but the portents suggest something wild.

An absolute must read from Mark Kenny in which he draws several key dire strands of the dilemmas facing us as a species. The Wake-up calls are starting to come thick and fast now …

Rescuing American leadership as technology replaces that which is uniquely human & authentic.

via @markgkenny.bsky.social

‘Widely repeated claims…consumers don’t want to buy EVs will one day be studied by social historians as a form of collective false consciousness, a distortion created by the culture war fed by large doses of black propaganda by Russian bots & vested interests.’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/1a99a89...

Similar problem in Australia. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes

How/why did the AFL agree to a contest where the uniforms are so close in colours? It really detracts from the spectacle.

Has the social deficits of broken promises put the government 'on the ropes'? Hear from @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social on the latest episode of #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ as they analyse Labor's 'chin-leading' budget. #auspol 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

I’m in the UK at present and the mood is palpable. More of the same is not good enough for a large cohort of people. As in most countries the expectations of people are probably too high to be achievable hence the room for protest groups to force their agenda.

As UK Labour has been surprisingly slow to remember, voters elect centre-left parties to undertake economic reform and strengthen social justice. Otherwise, what’s the point of them?

This umpiring.

Sober policy or crazy Ivans?

What will the Farrer by‑election results mean for Australian politics? Catch a live #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ recording with leading political experts @benraue.com @jillesheppard.bsky.social @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social. 📌Mon 11 May, 6:30pm. 👉 events.humanitix.com/farrer-by-el...

This week on #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️ @markgkenny.bsky.social & @marijataflaga.bsky.social sit down with Professor Nicholas Biddle to dig into Australia's fiscal paradox and make sense of the observations of Australian voters in this 'age of pessimism'. #auspol 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

By way of coda

The third law of thermo-dynamic politics: never hurt boomers. #auspol

British King meets Burger King (or why I’m suddenly a monarchist) www.canberratimes.com.au/story/923590...

theconversation.com/while-it-was... @anuausi.bsky.social

Trump steers America into a ditch but shush, don’t tell the media…

Canada is home to the second-largest Sikh community in the world. This Sikh Heritage Month, we celebrate the generations of Sikh Canadians who have contributed to our shared prosperity, strengthened our communities, and helped build a stronger Canada.

So many great people came through 2SER. And now the Uni of Technology is threatening to have it shuttered. It's dire. I'll have a petition page for you in the next day or so. We'd love your suupport.

Have the conflicts in Iran & Ukraine demonstrated the limits of great power aggression? On the latest episode of #DemocracySausage 🌭🎙️, Dr Charles Miller joins Prof @markgkenny.bsky.social to unpack American military adventurism & the path to peace. 🎧👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...

He promised to ‘make America great again’ but has only weakened it at home and abroad.

During #Trump’s #Iran war there have been more deadly attacks from extremist Israeli settlers on Palestinians. #Israel #US #Palestine Click link to read… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

There is a growing chorus of people pleading with major news outlets to stop sane-washing the #US President in their coverage.

What happens when egotistical fools and dilettantes are given their heads…

HEARTY congratulations Zena. They are very lucky to have you. As are we at ANU.

It is an odd response to shift rightward after your electoral base has moved the other way. It might work for the Nats - who see One Nation as their chief competition - but for Liberals, it is just dogma.

Could a collective uniform defence of principled foreign policy influence great power behaviour? It’s worth a try… @mark-carney.bsky.social

Even if a hospital or school contains enemies, that doesn’t give another force carte blanche to attack it. International war conventions impose on all forces a strong responsibility to minimise non-combatant harm. Good discussion here w Ben Saul @marijataflaga.bsky.social @markgkenny.bsky.social

On the latest #DemocracySausage, 🎙️career diplomat and foreign policy observer, Andrew Goledzinowski, joins @markgkenny.bsky.social to discuss the conflict in the Middle East and the prospects for regime change in the Islamic Republic. #AUListen Now 🎧 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...