Pretty weird irony: the Very Serious People are proposing hate speech laws that stifle criticism of this kind of hate speech - to protect people who support or ignore it.

Ronni articulates the ugly place we find ourselves where the strident voices yell their obdurate bias and the sleazy opportunists fashion political or commercial benefit from human tragedy. At its simplest, humanity and its common good are being challenged by wilful division and partisan cruelty.

Sovereignty of Australia bartered to the most destructive force in geopolitics.

I would much rather look at someone’s joyous or silly stick figure drawings any day over the horrendous AI slop that’s been dominating every social media platform lately.

This is FIFA clearing the way to flatter Trump to get him to call off ICE when large numbers of foreign nationals swamp the US to both play and watch football next year and not round them up in Camp Crocodile ready for deportation. It is an unseemly display of obeisance.