Politics

Mixed reality — It’s a complicated tale of processors, base stations, politics, and Jony Ive. Samuel Axon – May 23, 2022 8:55 pm UTC Enlarge / Jony Ive speaks onstage during the 2017 New Yorker TechFest in New York City. A series of reports in The Information paint a detailed picture of progression, politics, and…

POLL DAY A woman casts her vote in the governor elections in Bangkok on Sunday, May 22, 2022. AFP PHOTO BANGKOK: Bangkok went to the polls on Sunday in its first governor election in almost a decade, with the ballot viewed as an indicator for a national vote expected within a year. Around 4 million…

Alan Tudge should leave politics and allow Josh Frydenberg to take his seat. His party needs it and the nation needs it. Alan Tudge (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch) One of the few survivors from the Saturday night massacre of Liberals in Victoria is also the least-deserving: Alan Tudge will hang on in Aston despite a swing…

Downing Street has admitted that it did initiate a meeting between Boris Johnson and Sue Gray – hours after a cabinet minister told Sky News that it was Ms Gray who did so. Contradictory accounts about the secret meeting have emerged since details of it were first reported by Sky News last Friday. Meanwhile an…

Progressive groupthink is falling to pieces…

When Finland and Sweden announced their interest in joining NATO, the two Nordic states were expected to be swiftly accepted as members of the defense alliance. But joining NATO requires consensus approval from all existing members, and Turkey – one of the group’s most strategically important and militarily powerful members – is not happy.  The…

Walt Disney  (DIS) – Get Walt Disney Company Report CEO Bob Chapek’s criticism of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill  — better known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law — which Florida Gov. Rob DeSantis signed into law on March 28, has created a political firestorm between Disney and Republicans that could jeopardize the Mouse House’s…

One of the most important registers in measuring the democratic health of a society can be found in how it treats its youth. By any current standard, which includes the quality of public schools to laws that protect the health and well-being of young people, the United States is failing miserably. Youth, especially youth of…

Australians on Saturday voted decisively against wedge politics as Labor’s Anthony Albanese claimed victory, defeating Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Liberal party.  National LGBTQI advocacy organisation Equality Australia called it a “stunning rebuke of the politics of division”.  Morrison, who had vowed to bring back the un-amended anti-LGBTQI Religious Discrimination Bill in Parliament, if his…