The Brown Note

Corbyn v Blair - the cult of personality destroying the UK's Labour party

Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn are portrayed as irrational zealots, hell bent on destroying the Labour Party, yet the cult of personality really destroying Labour is that of Tony Blair, whose wildly misrepresented legacy as Labour's savior is completely untrue and whose acolytes are in delusion and denial.

Kyle Rittenhouse and Bobby Shmurda - race and the law in America

Recently Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with murdering two people and shooting a third with an illegally owned assault rifle is now out on a $2 million bail, raised by the public, half of whom regard him as a hero and he may well not spend one more day in prison. The rapper Bobby Shmurda will finish all seven years of his sentence for illegally owning a gun, yet not being the direct perpetrator of any other crime and was treated by the legal system in America at the age of 20 as a mafia boss. One is white, one is black.

Don't offer an olive branch to the right they are the enemy

With a bitterly fractured world, divided along the political right and left, recent wins against populism have come with some imploring us to reach out to the right and heal. I say no, these are not good people, they want to fight and are the enemy.

Pete Evans isn't a Nazi

Another winner in 2020 bingo. Why I don't think the celebrity chef and now Qanon-lite grifter is an ACTUAL white supremacist, in light of his recent and utterly bizarre posting of an anti-Trump meme with Nazi connotations and subsequent cross-media cancellation, he may just be incredibly stupid.

Christian Porter and the Family Court

Australian Attorney General, Christian Porter, was outed on a recent 4Corners TV expose on Liberal party misogyny and bad behavior towards women. Ring wing news media of course came in to bat for him as claiming rumors of his boozing and affairs weren't in the public. With this top legal entity in the country currently involved in a Men's Rights attack on the Family Court that's perceived to be too friendly to woman - I say his accused lifetime of misogyny is very much in the public interest.

Why Trump is losing the senate and the madness of King Donald

His election defeat was beautiful but now we enter a dangerous phase we only joked about and that now seems real. Donald really is trying to take over American democracy in a coup and why this is going to lose the republicans their last crown jewel - the senate.

Australia has a class problem - The Liberal Party 4Corners Scandal

The ABC's 4Corners expose into the systemic sexist, entitled behavior of Liberal National Party government officials shows they really believe themselves to be the ruling elite, above such petty concerns as faithfulness to their wives, respect to their staff or honesty to their electorates.

Why I Stand With Jeremy Corbyn

The best UK political leader of my lifetime, the UK's Bernie Sanders - Jeremy Corbyn, is once again being railroaded by accusations of racism, despite campaigning against racism for decades in a way almost no UK politician has. SHAMEFUL

Is Populism Dead?

It's been a horror five years, bouncing from catastrophe to disaster. From Trump to Brexit to Boris to Scomo. The nightmare of populism might be ending though, with great election results in New Zealand, Queensland and the US knocking at the door.

Why I Stand With JK Rowling on Women's rights.

I can't think of another oppressed or marginalised group who have ownership of their own issue, identity or story so routinely talked over or dismissed as Women. The Harry Potter author, JK Rowling's personal notion of feminism has clashed with Trans rights. Why I stand with her.