Personal Reflections

Ten days into the Trump administration I wrote ( Monday Forum - the administrative competence of the Trump Administration ) I wrote:  I thin...

  A weight on my shoulders I have rarely suffered from writer's block. More normally, I have the opposite problem, too many ideas chasin...

Nancy Pelosi. To my mind, she has become part of the US problem, impeding a US solution.  Like many Australians, I watched events unfold at ...

Talking to people and in on-line discussions, the major reaction to the new year has been one of relief that 2020 has finished. It has indee...

This has been a funny mixed up year,  At the start  of 2020 year we were coming out of a period of fire and drought. I was four months back ...

My post,  China's apparently expanding Great Wall against Australia (18 November 2020), was an attempt to sort out my own views in the ...

 It’s strange when you read a history that is analysing events that you lived through yourself. The events are familiar, of course, but ther...

  Beardy Street Armidale, 1964 It's very hot in Armidale today, 28.0C as I write. I find the heat enervating. I suppose that's a sig...

  The signature on Sunday 15 November 2020 of  the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) after eight years of negotiations shou...

Lunch today at Uralla's Top Pub. It's a pretty pub.  Sitting there on the shaded verandah watching the passing parade, I thought how...

  I spend a fair bit of time listening to radio. One of my all time favourite programs is the ABC's Saturday Extra , hosted by Geraldin...

Custer's last stand. When leadership goes wrong! In a response to my post Saturday Morning Musings - on the modern fallacy of leadership...