Ramesh Thakur

A diplomatic dust-up for the ages

3 March 2025 11:54 am

With President Donald Trump’s re-election and his well-known views, Europe and Ukraine faced an in-tray from hell. Yet, their shock…

Trump bells the cat on Ukraine

1 March 2025 9:00 am

Hard choices require a dose of tough love

Power speaking truth to irrelevance

22 February 2025 12:33 pm

In his historic speech at the Munich Security Conference, JD Vance told European leaders not to shut down opinions with…

Rule of law corrupted

22 February 2025 9:00 am

Now it’s rule by lawyers and it imperils democracy

Gaslighting

15 February 2025 6:28 pm

Censorship exists to protect bad ideas from public scrutiny. Because it is effectively a toxic four-letter notion, governments in thrall…

From Israel to the sea, Gaza will be free

15 February 2025 9:00 am

The audacity of US power

Snatching defeat

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Israel is both the biggest winner and the biggest loser

Importing the third world

25 January 2025 9:00 am

The cost of accepting immigrants who don’t share our values is too high

Rape of the innocents

18 January 2025 9:00 am

Only a national inquiry can address the scale of the cover up

Sun sets on age of endarkenment

14 December 2024 9:00 am

The West wakes up

The Great Disruptor

30 November 2024 9:00 am

Trump’s war on woke

Trigger warning: common sense outbreak at UN!

23 November 2024 9:00 am

United Nations calls out trans threat to women’s sports

The Latino wave

16 November 2024 9:00 am

How history was made and Trump was carried to victory

Covid’s abuse of power

9 November 2024 9:00 am

The inquiry is as misinformed as the experts were

Covid Inquiry was not fit for purpose

6 November 2024 2:30 pm

The 868-page report of the official inquiry into Australia’s Covid-19 response, like the inquiry itself, is not fit for purpose.…

Hamas’s agents of chaos

2 November 2024 9:00 am

The antisemitism of students is not accidental

Four simple truths about Israel

19 October 2024 9:00 am

And why multiculturalism is failing

Israel’s strategic circles

12 October 2024 9:00 am

Deterrence, escalation and exploding pagers

Fourteen weeks to do what Tories did in fourteen years

5 October 2024 9:00 am

Starmer sinking like a stone

Not all masculinity is toxic

28 September 2024 9:00 am

Hold the front page: men are different to women

Requiem for democracy

31 August 2024 9:00 am

If Kamala wins, RIP the USA

Perils of two-tier rule

17 August 2024 9:00 am

Majority must not be silenced

How Covid broke our trust in the medical profession

10 August 2024 9:00 am

...and why the media shares much of the blame

The road to Kamalot

3 August 2024 9:00 am

Who’s the real threat to democracy?

Vance advances Trump

27 July 2024 9:00 am

Restoring dignity and pride to the forgotten left-behinds