When Donald Trump will be sending Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents to blue, sanctuary states to solicit help from local sheriffs and other police forces, the only response he may get is ...

"Elegant" is important for successful innovation, as two recent energy examples show. In one an elegant advance appeared out of the blue, surprisingly, unexpectedly, rapidly dominating the competition ...

Each year I try and put the season into a Christian perspective because, as plenty of scholars, from Tom Holland to Augusto Zimmermann have demonstrated, even if we think it isn't, ours is still a ...

The Arctic is coming in from the cold. President-elect Donald Trump has reopened the question of the US acquiring Greenland. This is the third US attempt. The Trump comment has focussed attention on ...

Hamas' horrific October 7 attack and Israel's massive retaliatory war have fundamentally changed the dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. New political, psychological, and factual regional ...

In the years since I was first tempted to engage in trying to understand the real issues behind power generation - especially electrical power generation - there is, above all, one salient feature ...

The sustainability of enterprises has been an important issue in business management for decades. It was talked about by management giants like Peter Drucker, where sustainability was seen in a ...

This writer published a book some years ago Ending War which argued that war is an endemic aspect of human nature (with some convincing evidence). He asserts on another OLO blog, Do we have free will?

All machinery and associated facilities including solar arrays and wind turbine towers have a finite life, they wear out. The issue of disposal of spent machinery and facilities is a growing problem ...

In 2025, Malaysia became the chair of ASEAN, taking over from the Lao PDR. At the same time, Malaysia becomes a partner country under the new tier below full membership in BRICs. During Malaysia chair ...

Saudi Arabia's state-owned international news channel Al Arabiya has denied me access to its website - apparently for the sin of writing extensively and positively about the Saudi-based Hashemite ...

As we head into 2025 with Australia living up to its reputation of a land of huge weather contrasts, our farmers are not the only people wondering if our national weather forecaster, the Bureau of ...