29 March 2019
Selling Out The Voters
The famous American author Mark Twain is rumoured to have once said ‘If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.’ The year 2016, though, was supposed to be the year where voting did make a difference. But the twin political disruptions of 2016 – Brexit in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump as President
17 April 2018
Asking Britain To Apologise For Its Empire Is Lunacy
Emily Thornberry’s call for Theresa May to apologise for Britain’s “historic wrongs” has caused bemusement here in Australia and doubtless other Commonwealth countries. What exactly is it that the shadow foreign secretary is ashamed of? The British Empire gave the citizens of Commonwealth countries law and order, democracy, honest government and free trade. It suppressed slavery, internal warfare and a
