If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one…
Aussie coppers are going back into Papua New Guinea after the Enhanced Cooperation Program was resuscitated today. Apparently there will be no uniformed or plainclothes police on the beat, as there were before the Plan fell over. Federales will be put into key posts, and some more civvys are going over too. But no firefights […]
Third post in a row that’s treading old ground: we’ve officially hit our creative apex and from now on hell’s paving stones is going into decline. Enough! Back to the regurgitory task at hand!
Here’s a picture of the little demon - we know how much you like pictures:
HPS was toying with the idea of liveblogging […]
In the past few weeks there’s been some interesting developments on the ’shoe incident’ - the diplomatic quibble that’s acting as a proxy war for tensions between Australia and Papua New Guinea over the forms of aid to PNG.
On Tuesday, Sir Michael Somare, the PNGuinean PM, made a speech to his Parliament saying that he […]
HPS had a particular interest in the outcome of this papal conclave. As you may have worked out, we’re of the Catholic persuasion.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s elevation to the Bishopric of Rome and the Papacy is, for us, the worst possible outcome, and coming as it did on only the third vote (by our count), […]