Recent articles by Guest Author Tony Smith.
9 February 2023
Balloons and cameras reveal nothing but our China paranoia
Secrets make us paranoid. We should do away with secrets and spies and become a truly open society.
30 December 2022
Terry Irving, The fatal lure of Politics: the life and thought of Vere Gordon Childe
Certainly the best biography I read in 2022 and possibly the best non-fiction book in any genre, is Terry Irvings comprehensive and incisive examination of the varied and controversial life of archaeologist, political theorist and leftist practitioner Vere Gordon Childe.
23 December 2022
The true inconvenience in New South Wales
When former US vice-president Al Gore used the term inconvenient to describe the truth around climate change he used the term euphemistically. The truth about climate change is more accurately termed horrendous. Now, in a typical inversion of the truth the New South Wales premier has suggested that you should be sent to prison if you inconvenience people as you try to save the planet.