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Exquisite patterns cut into the fields of England, made by some intelligence other than human, perhaps, to draw our collective consciousness away from the dreary, predictable political patterns we’re used to living with. Crop circles have not decreased over the…

Losing face, saving face?  As an older man, tending a garden, living a relatively simple life, I have the time, regardless of health issues, to muse and ponder, educate perhaps enlighten myself.

It’s a changing landscape, internal, external.

Being able…

I take my news from many sources, democrat or republican, labour or liberal, none of these distinctions hold meaning. The t.v. news I’ll watch briefly to see what today’s narrative is and where the focus is being pushed.

There is…

All very well to be sure of whatever it is that’s under discussion but certainty doesn’t equate to truth. 

One doesn’t rise in academia by questioning established ‘wisdom’. The correct books need to be read, digested and regurgitated. Areas of…

Kookaburras scream with laughter as dawn breaks. The hoots and hollers are so raucous that it’s easy to picture them holding their bellies, barely able to hold onto their perch, high in the branches of a nearby tree.

I feel…

Hard to drain a swamp, as Trump promised he’d do, is next to impossible when you’re up to your neck in it. 

We’ve grown used to a President who lies on a daily basis, indulges in exaggeration and has no…

Once trust is broken I don’t know that it can be restored.

Israel is trusted by no-one, deceit is a trademark of Israel’s relationship with its neighbours and the world. 

The ongoing genocide in Gaza, the theft of land in…

Free speech, freedom of thought, freedom to express opinion, all under threat by the knee-jerk reaction of politicians in Australia to the hideous events at Bondi recently. 

Bob Carr speaks for many, freedom to see clearly from a former foreign…