Mike Pezzullo. A gossiper who loved to peddle his influence
MWM has obtained the Pezzullo Inquiry report after a long FOI fight. It documents a litany of transgressions and allegations. Rex Patrick with the details (part 2). It’s taken 18…
To a world at a loss as to how to handle Trump, I say this: the only answer may be to wait him out| Simon Jenkins
A great effort will be needed to undo the damage once the US president has gone. But with the constitution unable to bring him to order now, that is what…
Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novak
A government that openly embraces violence against Palestinians has now enshrined into law a policy of lethal force Yuli Novak is the executive director of B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights…
Trump’s surreal speech on Iran shed no light on his goals | Kenneth Roth
The US president couldn’t give a single coherent reason for why this aggressive war of choice must still be prosecuted Donald Trump’s self-congratulatory speech on Iran on Wednesday night was…
The US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating de-dollarization and America’s decline | Ahmed Moor
De-dollarization promises to reorder the world, reducing American power globally The US-Israel war on Iran is expensive. It’s expensive in terms of human lives, first of all. It’s expensive too,…
I did not tell my sister that our other sister was dying. Silence was the right choice, yet murky and painful
In family estrangement, the mud and dirt gets everywhere, Kathryn Heyman writes. And it is very hard to undo what has been done Years ago, when I lived in Scotland,…
Fuel-free travel, train journeys and staycations: how the fuel crisis is reinventing the Australian Easter break
The fuel crisis has spurred many Australians to abandon their original plans for the holiday period in exchange for creative alternatives Track Australia’s fuel prices, service station outages and shipments…
Peach PRC on stardom, synaesthesia and sexuality: ‘There was so much joy and fun in stripping’
The millions-streamed TikTok famous singer Shaylee Curnow has only just released her debut album: Porcelain, a huge departure from her candy-coloured, very online aesthetic Get our weekend culture and lifestyle…
I have always seen myself as ‘progressive’ – but with AI it’s time to hit the brakes | Peter Lewis
At a time when the populist right is on the rise, progressives are shooting blanks while history rushes headlong into an automated future Canberra rolled out the red carpet this…
JD Vance thinks space aliens are ‘demons’. Who can blame him? | Dave Schilling
Of course the vice-president is obsessed with extraterrestrials – look how bad things have gotten on Earth I can’t fault anyone for looking around at the state of things on…