Category: Britain
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New Oz election inevitable
Oz election deadlock while Brexit deadlocks UK … After Chilcot, Blairites renew fury to dump Jeremy Corbyn … Après Moi, Le Deluge: Bye, Bye Boris and Nigel … Homicidal presidential message from the Manila Maniac … Great Bores cont. A new OZ election inevitable The Australian federal election produced a deadlock. A new election some…
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Brexit debacle and European Cup humiliation
England out of European Cup and European Union … David Cameron barricaded in No 10 … Tories deflect blame onto Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn … Germany goes multicultural … Great Bores continued … Brexit debacle followed by European Cup humiliation It took a mere three days before England suffered the first backlash from its referendum vote…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
Election secret: Don’t mention capitalism’s storm clouds … Malcolm Turnbull swings from banker to wanker … Little Englanders praise Abbott and turn against Europe … Israel promotes bouncer to Defence Minister … Rupert Murdoch strikes again … Capitalism is the new dirty word During Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 US presidential race, his principal strategist James…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
Sky TV presenter Peta Credlin rubbishes PM Turnbull … Dumb media fails election coverage test … Murdoch lawyer takes charge at ABC … How Musso was bankrolled by MI5 … Mandela arrested on CIA tip-off … Credlin factor infects election The Federal Election campaign has produced two “zingers”, both delivered by Peta Credlin, Tony Abbott’s…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
“Panama” Malcolm Turnbull flounders in first week of federal election campaign … Tony Abbott’s political ambitions on heat again … More howlers from George Christiansen, the most obnoxious MP in Canberra … Rupert Murdoch’s Terrorgraph backs “our Albo”… Why UK socialists should vote to remain in EU on June 23 Turnbull’s muddled start Rupert Murdoch’s…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
Canberra’s Leaking Season is prelude to a fresh Killing Season … Media bosses curb farewell parties for ex-staff … Why Egypt’s sale of Red Sea islands has ignited street protests … ASIC is a banks lapdog not a watchdog Cabinet leak hits Turnbull amidships On the day that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull released his timetable…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – War between Turnbull Liberals and the Abbott Conservatives
The old political parties in Britain, the US and Australia are beginning to crack open. The British Labour Party, for example, has two wings – a pro-socialist left led by party leader Jeremy Corbyn and a Blairite wing of pro-capitalists. (“Should Labour Split?” New Statesman, Feb 2016) The British Conservatives are divided too, over the…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Turnbull commits hara-kiri
Malcolm Turnbull’s time runs out … London author savages Tony Blair … The Spectator attack on Assange backfires … Boris changes his tune on EU What is it with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and taxation policy? His GST plan collapsed under universal criticism, he fled from tinkering with the negative gearing rort and now he’s…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – ABC presenter Amanda Vanstone, the Liberal Party and the Mafia
I trust someone will phone ABC Radio presenter Amanda Vanstone, the former Howard government immigration minister, and ask why she granted known Mafia figure Frank Madafferi a permanent visa. Madafferi, a notorious Calabrian criminal, applied for permanent residence in July 1996 but his application was turned down by then immigration minister Philip Ruddock. When Vanstone…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – The significance of Senator Bernie Sanders
With very good reason, most of the coverage of the US presidential primaries is occupied by billionaire Donald Trump, a New York real estate huckster. Regrettably, however, it has overshadowed the performance of Bernie Sanders, the Democrat senator from Vermont and self-described socialist. The 74-year-old Sanders, born in Brooklyn in 1941, is being outpolled by…