In which the pond goes Chicken Little with Joe of the Kelly gang, and does a chaser with Jennings of the fifth form and the IPA...

Every day's a disappointment at the lizard Oz, a bit like getting up each day to check the rat trap and seeing that once again the cunning rat has evaded capture.

This day it was left to that lesser member of the Kelly gang, Joe, to descend into hysteria at the top of the digital edition.

Over on the extreme far right the sightings were just as dismal:

Amazingly the reptiles had invited comrade Bill behind the paywall, and he decided to help out the Emeritus Chairman's lust for punters' shekels.

Millennial and Gen Z students need more than ivory towers
School-leavers are still dealing with the trauma of Covid lockdowns, they want their university experience to be an antidote to the isolation.
By Bill Shorten

Pass, comrade Bill's no antidote to anything. 

The pond thought that the reptiles might have fitted him up with that wretched use of "ivory towers", the ancient, less venerable older version of "woke", but they were just echoing comrade Bill ...

...So why do we still offer ivory towers? The incoming generation of students sees a disconnect between that outdated version of an Australian university and them. Too often millennials and Gen Z look at universities and see cold institutions that talk about themselves; obsessing over prestige or over rankings that give no indication of what is behind the curtain, of what the day-to-day experience is actually like. That information is critical to their choice because what it is actually like has a lot of money, time and personal sacrifice riding on it.
These young people do not want the overwhelming array of product information, in inaccessible forms and vocabulary. Nor the images of students – all aspirational and middle class – that simply don’t reflect how members of this new generation see themselves. They want a university that values and encourages a learning community, not a slick and soulless corporation that sees everything through the lens of revenue.
Universities that understand that change is to be embraced are adapting to the expectations of millennial and Gen Z students.
They are the unis that are clear-eyed about who they serve and what their strengths are. Those that authentically engage with future students and don’t over-promise at the risk of underdelivering. Those that are practical and prepare their students to enter a workplace with skills that are wanted by business and relevant.
These are the obligations of a modern Australian university, and we must honour those obligations – to our community and to our nation. Anything less is a breach of our social licence to operate.

Pass the pond its Harvard chuck bucket so it can upheave all that blather.

Meanwhile, it wouldn't be the Australian Zionist Daily without some daily action, and this day it was left to Geoff to chamber a bullet in ...

PM, Wong pursuing Left’s goal of recognising Palestinian state
Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong are laying the ground for Labor to move closer to their Left faction’s long-held position that Palestine be recognised as a state.
By Geoff Chambers
Chief Political Correspondent

You'd swear it was only a left faction that thought what was going down in Gaza was great. 

Nah, just keep on with the ethnic cleansing and the mass starvation as a strategy of war Geoff, it'll work out fine.

And for at least a brief period, petulant Peta was top of the digital reptile world ma, only noted by the pond for form's sake ...

Albo’s ‘plan’ for second term is just managed decline
Does anyone really think a government that was deaf to economic logic in its first term will have found wisdom now that it thinks it has been vindicated by one of the biggest ever parliamentary majorities?
By Peta Credlin
Columnist

Strange to think back to the days when her onion-munching regime was so pathetic and inept that even her own comrades couldn't stomach it.

As for the reading of the day, can the pond set the scene and the tone with Timothy W. Ryback's piece for The Atlantic, Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator, Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria. (*Archive link)

Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda.
He used inflammatory tactics and rhetoric to disable constitutional protections for the Weimar Republic’s 17 federated states, crushing their leadership and imposing his will on the country. “I myself was once a federalist during my time in the opposition,” Hitler told Hans Lex, a Reichstag delegate for the Bavarian People’s Party, in mid-March 1933, “but I have now come to the conviction that the Weimar constitution is fundamentally flawed.” Federalism, Hitler said, encouraged states to pursue local interests at the expense of the nation.
“The rest of the world watched in astonishment and glee as democratic leaders of the individual states, relying on the Weimar Constitution,” Hitler continued, “did not hesitate to attack the Reich government in the fiercest way possible at public rallies, in the press and on the radio.” Hitler vowed to end the “eternal battle” between the states and the central government by dismantling the federated system, crushing states’ rights, and forging “a unified will” for the nation.
In a statement to the press, Hitler said that the imposition of central authority should be seen not as the “raping” of state sovereignty but rather as the “alignment” of state policies with the central government’s...

And so on, and what a nice warm-up to the sturm und drang of the military parade soon to sweep through Washington's streets in best North Korean/Moscow style.

With militarism in the air, for once the pond decided to go with the news of the day, featuring Joe having an extreme anxiety attack ...

For those not into the small print ... Pentagon launches review of AUKUS submarine deal, The move is a major blow to Australia and comes days before Anthony Albanese’s is due to have his first in-person meeting with Donald Trump.

And the caption was a tribute to Frank's astonishing collage... The Trump administration has launched a review of the AUKUS submarine deal. Sources: iStock and Getty Images. Artwork by Frank Ling.

Of course Joe's work should be seen in the context of another lizard Oz story...

SUPERPOWER SHOWDOWN
China confident its ‘Xiconomics’ can win
Factories in China are closing and exports to the country’s biggest export market have tanked – while Beijing insists it has Donald Trump on the back foot.
By Will Glasgow

Sheesh, Xi on the march, wattaya got for us Joe?

The Pentagon is reviewing the AUKUS partnership with Australia and the UK, saying it needs to ensure the agreement is aligned with Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda and noting it was an initiative of the former administration.
The news has already prompted warnings from US Congressman Joe Courtney for the Trump administration not to abandon the landmark security agreement unveiled in September 2021 because it would benefit Beijing and have “far-reaching ramifications on our trustworthiness on the global stage.”
In a statement provided to The Australian, the Pentagon confirmed the review – reportedly being led by Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Elbridge Colby – was aimed at ensuring AUKUS served the best interests of the United States.
“The Department is reviewing AUKUS as part of ensuring that this initiative of the previous Administration is aligned with the President’s America First agenda,” the statement said.
“As (Defence) Secretary (Pete) Hegseth has made clear, this means ensuring the highest readiness of our servicemembers, that allies step up fully to do their part for collective defence, and that the defence industrial base is meeting our needs,” the Pentagon said.
“This review will ensure the initiative meets these common sense, America First criteria.”

Ah yes, common sense American criteria ...

Has RFK been at it again? He has, he has, and how good to see the WSJ helping him out ...

You can catch Robert Kennedy (the pond has heard the call not to give him the RFK honorific) offering weasel words in the WSJ (archive link) but the Graudian is more useful.

Sorry, another tour to the dark ages, where was the pond?

Ah, a snap featuring subs, Under the AUKUS arrangement, the US has agreed to provide Australia with between three and five nuclear-powered Virginia class submarines

Carry on Joe, a snap of subs always inspires the reptiles at the lizard Oz ...

Mr Albanese will now come under increased pressure to obtain commitments of support for the AUKUS agreement at this meeting, with the Australian Prime Minister having already downplayed a request from Mr Hegseth to lift defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP.
Australia has also already made the first $500m payment to the United States under the AUKUS deal when Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles met with his US counterpart in February.
Under the AUKUS arrangement, the US has agreed to provide Australia with between three and five nuclear-powered Virginia class submarines. But concerns have emerged over whether the US industrial base can meet the target of producing the required 2.33 Virginia-class submarines per year – the rate needed to replace the boats sold to Australia.

It's also always a good time to show a snap of a Faux Noise host and champagne devotee, Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth. Picture: AP

He looks nicely demented. Signal to him Joe ...

Mr Colby last year told the Policy Exchange think tank in the UK that he would have been “quite sceptical” about signing off on the AUKUS agreement, and argued the benefits and viability of the arrangement was “questionable.”
He also made clear he had concerns about the ability of the US defence industrial base to keep up with its target in order to provide Australia with the submarines. Mr Colby is also known to be worried about whether the Virginia class submarines provided to Australia would be available in a contingency in the Taiwan Strait.
“My concern is, why are we giving away this crown jewel asset when we most need it,” he told Policy Exchange. “AUKUS is only going to lead to more submarines collectively in 10, 15, 20 years, which is way beyond the window of maximum danger, which is really in this decade.”
Mr Colby made clear in his nomination hearing earlier this year that he expected Australia to increase its defence spending, arguing that “main concern the United States should press with Australia, consistent with the president’s approach, is higher defence spending.”
“Australia is currently well below the 3 per cent level advocated for NATO by NATO Secretary-General [Mark] Rutte, and Canberra faces a far more powerful challenge in China,” he said.

Ah, the old Mafia shakedown routine. 

Buy from us, even if we can't guarantee supply, and join us in yet another war, and then came a reminder of who got Oz into this fix, Scott Morrison announcing AUKUS with Joe Biden and Boris Johnson in 2021. Picture: Newswire/Gary Ramage

Give the liar from the Shire a gong and send him on his clap happy way ...

Mr Courtney, the ranking member of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee and the co-chair of the Friends of Australia Caucus, warned that “to abandon AUKUS – which is already well underway – would cause lasting harm to our nation’s standing with close allies and certainly be met with great rejoicing in Beijing.”
He said the Trump administration “certainly has the right to review the trilateral AUKUS mission, but as the recent UK government’s defence review determined, this is a defence alliance that is overwhelmingly in the best interest of all three AUKUS nations.”
“It is worth noting that all three countries have completed joint nuclear submarine training with a significant number of sailors and officers, with more in the pipeline; Australian sailors and naval operators are joint-crewing U.S. Virginia class submarines; joint U.S.-Australian submarine repair work is happening in Guam and Hawaii; and the U.S. submarine industrial base delivered two attack submarines in 2024, two will be delivered in 2025, and two more in 2026,” he said.
“To walk away from all the sunk costs invested by our two closest allies – Australia and the United Kingdom – will have far-reaching ramifications on our trustworthiness on the global stage and is a direct contradiction to the administration’s ‘America First, but not alone’ goal of countering aggression from China, Russia, and other adversaries.”

Go on, King Donald, do it ... teach Albo a lesson, just like the reptiles do every day, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has answered questions on Australia’s defence spending and the AUKUS agreement. “I think that Australia should decide what we spend on Australia’s defence,” Mr Albanese said at the National Press Club of Australia conference. “It’s as simple as that.”

Now the pond must offer a caveat in this coverage.

We are after all only dealing with a lesser member of the Kelly gang. 

Nothing can be definitive until the bromancer has spoken, and the pond will be keeping a lookout, but in the meantime, do carry on Joe...

But there were mixed signals coming out of Washington on the AUKUS agreement on Wednesday. News of the Pentagon review came as the United States Secretary of the Navy under President Donald Trump, John Phelan, provided written testimony to the House Armed Services Committee backing in the trilateral security partnership.
“AUKUS is an opportunity to strengthen deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. AUKUS will bring our three countries closer together by reinforcing our collective diplomatic, economic, technological, and military strength,” Mr Phelan said. “This partnership increases the stability of the Indo-Pacific region through improved deterrence. AUKUS Pillar I provides the United States a rotational submarine presence in Western Australia and a strategically important location for rearming and repairing our submarines.”
“AUKUS is what allied deterrence should look like: shared commitments, mutual investments and results that enhance — not burden — American readiness. We will hold to that standard as we build this partnership for the long haul.”

Say what, yet another snap, Defence Minister Richard Marles and Australian Ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd with US Congressman Joe Courtney in February. Picture: Supplied

Sheesh Joe, wrap it up, this Chicken Little sky falling in routine is going on and on ...

Mr Phelan, a businessman and key backer of Mr Trump, said that the US, the UK and Australia were all committed to the AUKUS “Optimal Pathway” – the phased, commitment-based plan aimed at delivering Canberra a nuclear-powered submarine capability.
“More than 100 Royal Australian Navy uniformed personnel are in the US training pipeline or already serving aboard US SSNs,” he said. “Meanwhile, more than 120 Australian civilian submarine maintenance personnel are training at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility.”

How alarming is it? Why it's time for Mega Maga despair because Joe felt the need to consult a cardigan wearer, a certified member of the Canberra 'leet, and though not quite as bad as Harvard, apparently someone based in the deep Washington swamp...

Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies at ANU, John Blaxland, told The Australian that Mr Colby had a “US-first, zero sum approach to the submarine allocation.”
“For him, the question is – we can’t be one hundred per cent sure that, in a conflict, Australia would be on our side. Which is true.”
But Professor Blaxland said that “any self-respecting democracy” could not commit to something in advance which was outside the scope of their treaty obligations – in this case, the ANZUS alliance. “Taiwan is not in the treaty,” he said.
“For the Colby review to seriously question the efficacy of allocating SSNs (attack submarines) to Australia would, in my view, have a deeply counter-productive effect.”

Please make this the last snap, Anthony Albanese with Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak during the 2023 AUKUS summit. PIC: PMO

What a relief. No need to panic, just stay calm and carry on regardless ...

Professor Blaxland, who is based in Washington, said that Australia “had so many things to be worried about with this administration so far. This adds to the list.” But he said it was important not to panic.
“We are stuck. We can’t pull this spear out. You do more damage pulling it out than pushing through. We’re already in. We are in up to our necks.”
“So all we have to do is not panic – not be Chicken Little. The sky is not falling. It’s stormy. But not falling. And (we must) be assertive and very articulate in making the case that it is in America’s interest to pursue the AUKUS deal and to follow through on the commitment to allow Australia to purchase at market price the SSNs we plan to purchase.”
“That will help to consolidate Australia as a reliable ally of the US.”

Actually if push came to shove, and the pond had to live under a fickle, demented, authoritarian ruler, the Chinese do better food, slow and fast ...

Luckily the emperor made a guest appearance in this day's Rowe ...

Zoom out to WS to see the snow monster, full Yeti, in situ...

It's always in the detail and that rabid pair in the chair lift set the tone for the next piece...

The pond only decided to spend time with Jennings of the fifth form because he was there, and there was bugger all else to do...

The header for what the reptiles clocked as a five minute read, Anthony Albanese’s sanctions, lecturing and paternalism all about iron control, Welcome to Albo’s performative paternalism: where symbolism displaces hard choices, dissent is met with rebuke and foreign policy is reduced to theatre.

The caption for the snap of a man looking devious at a 24 hour airport, Anthony Albanese speaks at the opening of Western Sydney international airport. Picture: Thomas Lisson

The return of the irrelevant instruction: This article contains features which are only available in the web version, Take me there

Jennings of the fifth form led with "paternalism", a kind of projection given the way that the reptiles at the lizard Oz love patriarchy, and love the manly ways of bone spur afflicted, champers devouring warriors...

Labor has defined its political style for this term in office: performative paternalism.
It’s about image rather than content and, under a veneer of caring for your safety, it’s also about iron control. Here are four examples of how performative paternalism works.
Anthony Albanese is in his happy place on ABC Radio Brisbane on May 29, joshing with former NRL player Billy Moore: “a good friend of mine, a bit of trivia for you, Billy, that their cat was named Billy”.
Unexpectedly the ABC injects some substance, asking the Prime Minister about a new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute that says the Australian Defence Force is not ready for conflict.
Albanese: “Well, that’s what they do, isn’t it? ASPI. I mean seriously, they need to, I think, have a look at themselves as well and the way that they conduct themselves in debates.”
The threat is clear: ASPI is government-owned. An “independent” review into ASPI commissioned by Albanese and released just before Christmas last year argued to bring the organisation under closer public service oversight.

At this point the reptiles introduced the Zionist dog botherer having a natter, as the reptiles are wont to do ... Shadow Assistant Education Minister Zoe McKenzie opposes the “dramatic step” the Albanese government took to impose sanctions on Israeli ministers. Ms McKenzie claims she “can’t see that it will” lead to a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza. “These are dramatic steps for the Australian government to have taken,” Ms McKenzie told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “This does not seem to me to be a step that will help either Hamas give up its weapons, give up its action against Israel, nor indeed Israel to move towards a more peaceful situation.”

It won't be long before Jennings of the fifth form turns towards Zionism himself, but first a rap over the knuckles for refusing to propose a war with China by Xmas ...

ASPI’s report echoes many concerns that the ADF is buckling under spending cuts to pay for the far-distant nuclear-powered submarines. Albanese hates the criticism, any criticism, so ASPI better “have a look at themselves”.
Example two of performative paternalism. At the National Press Club last Tuesday Albanese delivers a speech that talks about Australia’s “stabilising global role in uncertain times”. He doesn’t mention China.
The Prime Minister is asked three times by a reporter from this newspaper if he thinks “China is a national security threat to Australia”. He will not say, instead offering: “I think that our engagement with the region and the world needs to be diplomatic, needs to be mature and needs to avoid the, you know, attempts to simplify what are a complex set of relationships. And Australian journalists should do the same.”
It is not Albanese’s business to tell journalists how to report on China. Answering an earlier question, Albanese says: “I respect the role that the media play, and people should respect the role that the media play in our modern society.”
But when it comes to China, Albanese says journalists should follow his script and avoid naming the threat.
Labor’s tendency to ever-stronger performative paternalism is most on display in connection with Israel. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade mistakenly says: “Australia has a warm and close relationship with Israel.”

Ah, here we go, here we go, with these miscreants on trial, Tony Burke, Penny Wong

Time for Jennings of the fifth form and the IPA to go all in ...

That used to be true but Albanese, with Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s support, is demolishing bilateral relations with the Middle East’s only democracy for the sake of the unrealisable policy of a two-state solution for Palestine.
On recognition of a Palestinian state, Wong said on Wednesday: “We no longer see recognition as only occurring at the end of a peace process. We do see the possibility of recognition as part of the peace process.”
For as long as Hamas controls Gaza and a war is being fought there is no prospect for meaningful peace talks. Offering recognition now is the ultimate reward for Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023. The offer should not be on the table.
Wong condemns Hamas for its terrorist activities and calls for hostages to be released. Still, she “will continue to advocate for all of these things, including a ceasefire”.
This is pure performative theatre. Australia’s long-advocated ceasefire would leave Hamas in charge of Gaza, where no peace process is possible. Hamas advocates a one-state solution, which means the destruction of Israel. Labor must not risk recognising a Palestinian state where there is no Palestinian enti­ty committed to peace, only terrorist groups wanting international legitimacy.
So, to my third example of performative paternalism: On June 6, American-Israeli technology entrepreneur Hillel Fuld was denied a visa to Australia on the grounds that he might incite hatred “against particular segments of the community, namely the Islamic population”.
Fuld was due to speak at events in Sydney and Melbourne. I understand he was going to talk on innovation; high technology accounts for more than half of Israel’s exports.

You see? Rowe was just being prescient with that chair lift, Itamar ben Gvir (L) and Bezalel Smotrich (R) are pictured during the swearing in ceremony of the new Israeli government at the Knesset.

And so to a bout of full throated support for full throated Zionists...with bonus dissembling ...

Fuld is also active on social media. To demonstrate the risk of inciting hatred, the Department of Home Affairs listed some of his tweets on the extent of Islamist radicalisation; on the complicity of some Gazans in supporting Hamas; on Arab terror against Jews.
Reasonable people could disagree with Fuld, perhaps finding some of his views objectionable, but he is clearly a rational and intelligent person. His crime might well be that his views dramatically differ from those of Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.
There is nothing so fragile about Australian society that we need protection from Fuld. A sharp debate about the reality of the war in Gaza would actually inform our thinking.
Example four: on Tuesday Australia joined with Canada, New Zealand, Norway and Britain on sanctions targeting Israeli Knesset members Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. Both are ministers from minor parties in the Netanyahu coalition government.
Wong told ABC radio on Wednesday: “These two ministers are the most extreme proponents of what we regard as an unlawful and violent settlement enterprise which by their actions go against the notion of a two-state solution.”
I carry no brief for Ben-Gvir and Smotrich; they represent one end of a politically riven Israel, but they don’t speak for the Israeli government.

Oh but you do carry a brief, your column reeks of it, it saturates your keyboard, but please allow the pond to indulge in Who are Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli ministers facing sanctions?

Bezalel Smotrich, finance minister
Smotrich is a messianic settler who was born in the occupied Golan Heights in 1980, now lives in the occupied West Bank and has repeatedly called for Israeli settlers to return to Gaza.
He believes Jews have a divine right to all land that made up biblical Israel. A commitment to expanding the area controlled by Jewish Israelis – both in de facto terms and through legal annexation – runs through his personal and political life.
In 2005, he was arrested by the Shin Bet security services and questioned for weeks about his role in protests over Israel’s plans to withdraw from Gaza, allegedly on suspicion of planning to block roads and damage infrastructure to try to block the withdrawal.
He was released without charges being brought, set up an influential rightwing NGO focused on control of occupied land and won his first parliamentary seat in 2015.
Smotrich is a self-declared “fascist homophobe” who backed segregated maternity wards separating Jewish and Arab mothers and called for government reprisal attacks on Palestinians. He once organised an anti-gay “Beast Parade” protest against Gay Pride.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, security minister
Ben-Gvir embraced extremism so young that Israel’s domestic security forces barred him from serving in the country’s army as a teenager.
Born in 1976 to a family of Iraqi heritage in a small town outside Jerusalem, he became a far-right activist while still at school, and continued while studying law.
By his early 30s he had been convicted of incitement to racism and support for a terrorist organisation. Those convictions did not stop him from becoming a lawyer, and he specialised in representing Jewish Israelis charged with terrorism-related offences.
For years his living room was decorated with a portrait of the mass murderer Baruch Goldstein, who gunned down 29 Palestinians in a Hebron mosque in 1994. Goldstein, like Ben-Gvir, was an admirer of the extremist rabbi Meir Kahane.
Having spent most of his life as a figure on Israel’s political fringe, Ben-Gvir was given the security portfolio when he joined Netanyahu’s government. He now controls the police forces that once arrested him, and the jails where he was once held.

What an unsavoury pair, and worse,  they serve an even lower, even more base purpose ...

The two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers facing sanctions from the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway are critical to the political survival of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
In 2022 Netanyahu formed the most rightwing government in Israel’s history, brokering a coalition with Bezalel Smotrich, whose Religious Zionism party has 14 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, and Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose Jewish Power party has six seats.
They account for just 20 of his coalition’s 67 seats in parliament but carry outsize influence because if they quit – which both repeatedly threaten to do – the government will fall.
Netanyahu is currently on trial for corruption and fending off calls for an official inquiry into the 7 October 2023 attacks, and keen to avoid early elections.

Back to Jennings of the fifth form and his brief ...

Their offence, according to the five-nation joint statement, is “extremist rhetoric”. Where are the targeted sanctions against Muslim leaders in the Middle East peddling “extremist rhetoric” against Israel?

Ah splendid, a bout of both siderism, interrupted by the reptiles deciding to show a snap of Liddle Marco, Marco Rubio, a man deep into the kool-aid supplied by King Donald..

Please, carry on with the both siderism:

Where are the sanctions against Iran’s ambassador in Canberra who last year used social media to call for the “wiping out” of Israelis in Palestine by 2027 and described Jews as a “Zionist plague”?
Netanyahu’s approach to Gaza is, in my view, deeply flawed. A friend might choose quieter engagement to encourage Israel towards a better path. But Labor’s performative campaign will fracture our relationship with Israelis who increasingly feel abandoned by their mates.
The sanctions have already been condemned by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Wong’s response is “from time to time we have differences of views”. Increasingly, though, this is Labor’s tone towards the US.
Welcome to performative paternalism: where symbolism displaces hard choices, dissent is met with rebuke and foreign policy is reduced to theatre.
A government that bullies, lectures and sanctions its way through difficult terrain risks not only domestic division but real damage to our US alliance and our once-valued relationship with Israel.
Peter Jennings is director of Strategic Analysis Australia and an adjunct fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. He is a former deputy secretary for strategy in the Defence Department.

Just another IPA hack, still hacking it out, while wearing the garb of "adjunct fellow", but getting even more pathetic as the reptile years go by ...

And so to wrap up proceedings with the infallible Pope of the day ...

It's always in the details, or perhaps at the arse end of the hound ...

Don't go accusing the infallible Pope or the pond of anti-Semitism. It's just that the pond isn't into war crimes, mass starvation and ethnic cleansing, and mourns that Haaretz is howling in a wilderness ...