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If political satire died when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, as Tom Lehrer observed, then what should be made of the movement gaining strength that Donald Trump should be a contender for the laurel wreath? The winner of the Peace Prize is not always a universally praised decision. Kissinger, who
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As if the world wasn’t already hurtling to hell in a handbasket, along comes this: ABBA is threatening humankind with new songs. Yes. They sold enough records back in the day to lay a path of vinyl to the moon and back. Yes. They generated enough money from the hundreds of millions of albums they
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The French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe spoke eloquently, and from the heart, this week when he drew forth the words of Erich Maria Remarque to speak of the death and sacrifice of soldiers on the Western Front. Remarque, who fought for Germany during WWI, a decade after the war ended, wrote what quickly became a classic,
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Anzac Day, and a nation turns its eyes upon something, anything, that gives it reason to believe in an identity that is both heroic and enduring. A century ago, WWI was entering its last six months, after four years of catastrophic death and destruction, and a French village, Villers-Bretonneux, was reclaimed by Australian soldiers from
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Pity the sand. There’s so many lines drawn into it that it is the Etch A Sketch for modern morals. It doesn’t matter the field of human emotion or the arena of conflict, there it is: the sand and the line. It is universal in concept and local in aspect. It is, in its metaphoric
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I do think, on the information that I’ve seen, people do need help and they need help from a civilised country like ours. Thus spoke Zarathustra, sorry Peter Dutton, ubermensch of the nation’s home affairs. The minister was speaking of the plight of white farmers in South Africa. His department of immigration, border protection, national
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“President Trump isn’t doing this for theatre. He’s going to solve a problem” – Then CIA Director Mike Pompeo (now US Secretary of State). A summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is gathering speed. However, Daily Review has acquired the transcript of a meeting between the two men, hidden in plain
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But piece by piece we lose control You break your heart You lose your soul They give their word and we give our trust Until we stand On fields of dust. First World Problem, Blair Dunlop Some singer-songwriters grab your attention from the first note you hear, from the first song, from the first album.
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I Wish the Wars Were All Over is the last song on Joan Baez’s new album Whistle Down the Wind. It is a lament from a woman to her lover, gone to war in another country, a future unknown, a present bereft. “My billy has left to fight for a king/and I wish the wars
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It’s not easy being a stable genius. People might think with an intellect such as Donald Trump’s it is easy to maintain, but as the mouse on the wheel inside his head I have to it spinning every minute of every hour of every day of every week to enable that genius to operate at
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