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Trump's Star Wars Revival: The Golden Dome Antimissile Fantasy

Nigeria, March 26 -- Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the next proponent who should know better. The Iron Dome shield vision of ... Read More


Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding and the IOC

Nigeria, March 24 -- The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world's equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will succeed the outgoing president, Thomas Bach.... Read More


Careless People, Meta and Restricting the Digital Town Square

Nigeria, March 22 -- There is much talk in this age of heaving tech behemoths about the digital town square, where views can be aired with confidence, impunity and, at stages, disconcerting stupidity.... Read More


The Trauma Will Be Instagrammed: Wombat Handlings Down Under

Nigeria, March 19 -- The influencer might be defined as a modern, junked cretin of arrested moral and ethical capacity - with specific skills. Such an individual, for instance, is often able to use te... Read More


Sporting Contradictions: Athletes, the Olympics and Climate Change

Nigeria, March 15 -- The time has come for arguably the sporting world's most famous mafia organisation to select its new chief. The various turf-conscious representatives of the International Olympic... Read More


Militarising Europe: The EU Defence Spending Bug

Nigeria, March 14 -- We live in dangerous times, and politicians are happy to be cheerleaders of that supposed fact. They do not care to reassure; they merely care to strike fear into hearts and feed ... Read More


Aggrieved Speculation: The Trump Illness Hypothesis

Nigeria, March 12 -- The critics are utterly beside themselves in trying to understand the bruising odds and turns of Donald J. Trump, the reality showman and business tycoon who became US president t... Read More


More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer's Defence Spending Splash

Nigeria, March 8 -- The urge to throw more money at defence budgets across a number of countries has become infectious. It was bound to happen with Donald Trump's return to the White House, given his ... Read More


Zelensky: Victim of Colosseum Politics

Nigeria, March 3 -- There was a revolting tabloid quality to the Oval Office reception given to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on February 28, but then again, President Donald Trump is a tablo... Read More


Ho Hum at Sea: Anti-China Hysteria Down Under

Nigeria, March 1 -- The conduct of live-fire exercises by the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force (the Chinese "communists", as they are called by the analytically strained) has recently cause... Read More