Category: Political

When I’m deciding which candidate to vote for I look at their policies and promises. Naturally there won’t be any candidate that exactly matches my wishes or aspirations, so I choose the one that has a match on the things most important to me. I imagine you do the same, although your wishes or aspirations…

A couple of posts ago I wrote about how some politicians can polarise the constituency. So how does this tweet from Donald Trump fall on the continuum of inclusiveness versus divisiveness? Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only “stupid” people, or fools, would think that it is…

We all judge public figures. Increasingly I’m hearing people say they love this politician, or hate that politician. Our views are becoming polarised. So what do you do when a family member or friend says they hate someone you think is doing a reasonable job? How can there be any basis for rational discussion with…

As a number of people have said, for comedians and cartoonists Tony Abbott was the gift that just kept on giving. Perhaps my favourite cartoonist is The Guardian’s First Dog on the Moon. Thanks to Tony Abbott he’s had more material than he could cope with over the past two years. Now with Abbott gone I expect…