Tag: Australia

• Iran Amok

  

  The new Supreme Leader of Iran was on fire this week. Well, that’s what GBU-57 Bunker Busters do for you. You’ve got to hand it to him, though. For a chap in a coma, he’s not taking any prisoners. Whether it’s now coma over or come-on, this so-called war has bumbled into an almighty clusterfuck. Illegal,…

  Max Frances

  Mar 13, 2026

  War

  Asylum, Australia, Iran, Israel, Khameni, Oil, Putin, Revolution, Russia, Supreme Leader, Trump, Ukraine, US, Zelensky

• Going With the Flow

  

  Novak Djokovic has just been nicked, which should make for a fascinating episode of Border Security: Australia’s Front Line in due course. He’s off to the relative comfort of a ‘detention hotel’ along with various miscreants with their undeclared apples, bags of fish guts, and dried cat penises. If he does appeal it, we’re all going to…

  Max Frances

  Jan 6, 2022

  Health, Politics, Society, Sport

  Angela Rayner, Anti-Vaxxers, Australia, Boris, Colston Statue, Coronavirus, Courts, COVID-19, Djokovic, Edward Colston, Keir Starmer, Omicron, Parliament, Tennis, Testing, Vaccine

• The Same Game

  

  You’d have to have a heart of stone not laugh at the current Brussels pantomime, and we’re not yet even in the run-up to Christmas. The anglosphere has converged to squeeze France out of a $90bn submarine contract, and French indignation is, well, ripe. Strangely, there seems to be no sign of smug Europhiles gleefully…

  Max Frances

  Sep 17, 2021

  Politics, Social Media, Society

  Australia, Belgium, Brexit, Brussels, EU, France, Hypocrisy, Michel Barnier, Migrant Crisis, Migration, Negotiations, Politics, Sovereignty, Twitter, US, Verhofstadt, Withdrawal Agreement