Australia claims to have one of the best healthcare systems in the world, a claim which, judging purely by life expectancy, seems to be true. All the same, I think we should be more like Bangladesh. I don’t mean this in a global sense, I know far too little about Bangladesh to make sweeping generalisations…
No matter what China’s recent naval drills in the Tasman Sea were meant to provoke, the result has mainly been a lot of often vacuous discussion as to whether or not Australia should feel provoked. There has been a huge diversity in the coverage, from rather sensible-sounding reflections on adopting some kind of diplomatic stoicism,…
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” -Haruki Murakami Nearly every government, from tiny Tuvalu, all the way up to India, has a public sphere. That is, a community of some kind, “made up of private people gathered together as a public…
On the 24th of February last year, Russia relaunched its invasion of Ukraine (which originally started on the 20th of February 2014), and apart from a parody of Putin’s irredentist essay, I haven’t done much to make fun of Putin. So let’s look at some of the worst-aged quotes to recently turn a year old….
William Le Lacheur is a national hero in Costa Rica, where his exploits are legendary. He helped the newly independent nation establish direct trade links with Europe, helping establish its economy. He also took young Costa Rican boys to London to get an education, brought Protestantism to Costa Rica, and helped them defeat an American…
