The Rant Mistress

It starts out as a seemingly harmless thing that most of us have heard from our parents or grandparents: "Young people today! The...

Nuance is in very short supply at the moment. All over the place, sledgehammers are being used to crack walnuts. Binary thinking is comm...

Poor Donald Trump. When he visits Britain, he is going to be no-platformed everywhere he goes, the media will completely ignore him, no...

"For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity..." These are the opening words on the inscription at t...

Imagine this scenario if you will: People in England, including the leaders, consider the country to be under threat by the "other ...

How do you know when a load of Australians has landed at Heathrow? You can still hear the whining long after the plane has landed. Yes...

Is Turkey our friend or our foe in the battle against IS? Unsurprisingly, there is no simple answer to this question. At the time of w...

We are at war again. Gulf War Three. Because nothing much was really made better with Gulf Wars One and Two. But here we are again, star...

Another day, another broken ceasefire, another attempt to get Israeli and Palestinian leaders around the table, another round of futile...

April 25 is Anzac Day. This is the day when Australians and New Zealanders remember those who have died in war. As with Remembrance Day ...

As I waited at the bus stop wondering where the hell the 293 was, an old man sat next to me. At that moment, a group of about 40 schoolc...