Canberra, South Coast, London. Prof at Uni of Canberra. Know the past, do the future better. https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/chris-wallace
‘You have to go back to the refugee flight from Normandy in the bombing and artillery battles of 1944 to surpass the mass evacuation of 220,000 people seen last week in Aquitaine. It is frighteningly new and dystopian to see fires beyond human control…’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ae375a7...
Badenoch must reverse course on net zero before she destroys the ToriesRunaway climate change is threatening the conservative way of life: Kemi must end her green purgewww.telegraph.co.uk‘Bordeaux…is considering a total evacuation of the city of 270,000 people, with fires just 30 miles away. ‘France has already launched its largest peacetime evacuation.’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c6ffeee...
Bordeaux faces evacuation over ‘apocalyptic’ wildfiresFrance launches largest peacetime exodus as blaze threatens city of 270,000 peoplewww.telegraph.co.uk‘This is a new era of American pant-wetting and I need to understand absolutely everything about its conventions.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Football, golf … behold the future of world sport: Donald Trump as referee-in-chief | Marina HydeAfter his dubious intervention at the World Cup, the president is now an arbiter of high-level fairway disputes. There’s one word for that: SAD! says Guardian columnist Marina Hydewww.theguardian.com‘Americans are spending an average of more than six hours daily watching their screens’…’willing to stare at their phones & watch short-form, user- & AI-generated videos for extended durations that would have made Sam Goldwyn plotz.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...
Opinion | I’m a Screenwriter. Hollywood Is in Trouble. (Gift Article)A scriptwriter’s lament about Hollywood’s declinewww.nytimes.comCan confirm, Fatty’s nuclear chicken is nuclear. www.straitstimes.com/singapore/tr...
Susan would be a good candidate for the Clacton by-election, don’t you think @ledbydonkeys.org? youtube.com/shorts/H-QkT...
Many MPs describe being overrun with work. Nigel Farage has found time for another 12 jobs.YouTube video by Led By Donkeysyoutube.com‘The lesson…is “democracy dies when its defenders lose their nerve. Mainstream politics must connect with the surge tide of anger that populists rise & rebuild a radical centre … we cannot simply take shelter from the storm. We must sail the tempest.”’ @juliannes.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 bit.ly/4baSKf3
What Australia can learn from the rise of populists around the world to avoid following Hanson down her rabbit hole | Julianne SchultzA quarter of the world’s democracies are now led by authoritarian regimes and almost none have media systems that are able to hold power to accountbit.ly‘The crack in the relationship is most visible in Mr. Vance’s statements. He recently said…he would tell Israel’s far-right ministers (criticising) the deal with Iran, “You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/o...
Opinion | Israel Is Not Invinciblewww.nytimes.com‘In 30 or 40 years, scholars of history, if they exist, will want to know how the richest country in history…chose to throw it all away.’ @stephenmarche.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America is destroying itself. It’s no surprise | Stephen MarcheScholars will someday wonder how the richest country in history chose to throw it all away. But the crisis has been there since the beginningwww.theguardian.com‘It was one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century. But Bartholdi was never overly concerned with how to get Liberty to stand. ‘He was really winging it at first.’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Most Iconic American Artwork Is the Hardest to See (Gift Article)The Statue of Liberty is caught between the sublime and the souvenir, our critic Jason Farago explains. Look again: She’s much stranger than you think.www.nytimes.comThey “started talking about violence as a disease”: one that was caught by “being brought up in violent homes, whole communities where violence is prevalent”. They examined how violence spread, and how to treat it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Europe’s ‘murder capital’ slashed violent crime with a radical program. Will it work in Victoria?An early intervention program developed in Scotland is showing promising signs – but in an election year full of punitive rhetoric, its future is uncertainwww.theguardian.com