The Holocaust Given current events in Europe it is well worth remembering that the defining event of the last hundred years was probably the Holocaust. Man’s inhumanity to man reached its zenith with the wholesale genocide of European Jews during World War II in which the Nazis systemically murdered some six million Jews, in addition…

“Emmanuel Macron has won the first round of the French election and far-right rival Marine Le Pen will fight him for the presidency for a second time.” This extract is from the BBC. “France’s incumbent leader Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen are heading for an April 24 presidential election run-off.” This is…

We shall soon see. From Scott Morrison invokes Anthony Albanese’s socialist left faction in attack on Labor’s national security credentials. The government has repeatedly attacked the Opposition Leader and his frontbench on their ties with China as well as cuts to the defence and intelligence budget when it was last in power. Mr Morrison in…

The above is a great short thread on the ‘tiny Russian economy’ meme doing the rounds a few weeks back: Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand·40mReplying to@RnaudBertrandTo him “the war made us realize that the Russian economy is considerably more important than we thought” He says that a big reason for this misjudgment is exchange rates. If you compare…