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A fight between the EU and UK reveals the ugly truth about vaccine nationalism The UN General Assembly in September last year was a pivotal moment in the pandemic, when leaders began to show some unity as global deaths approached a million. They had learned hard lessons from the damage that hoarding protective equipment had done, they said. When a vaccine was developed, the world’s most vulnerable would be first in line, they claimed. The vaccines are now here and that solidarity has frayed. Between the United Kingdom and the European Union, it has disappeared entirely and given way to an a...

Murdoch’s Australia Day award — brought to you by miners and bankers Those who promote and profit from fossil fuels have appropriated the phoney awards handed out by the obscure Australia Day Foundation.  https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/01/27/rupert-murdoch-australia-day-foundation/– There’s no faulting the Australia Day awards for throwing up some real doozies but lost in the Margaret Court drama this year has been a so-called lifetime achievement award for Rupert Murdoch from the Australia Day Foundation. On the face of it it looks to be an extraordinary decision: a prestigious hono...

Rupert Murdoch accepts a lifetime achievement award from the Australia Day Foundation. (Image: Supplied) There’s no faulting the Australia Day awards for throwing up some real doozies but lost in the Margaret Court drama this year has been a so-called lifetime achievement award for Rupert Murdoch from the Australia Day Foundation. On the face of it it looks to be an extraordinary decision: a prestigious honour bestowed on the media mogul whose recent hits in the United States include helping fan an insurrection against democracy via Fox News and in Australia leading the way on climate chang...

No one thought President Donald Trump would leave quietly. But would he go so far as to start a military confrontation with Iran on his way out? Recent military movements by the Pentagon in the Middle East (ostensibly to deter Iran from attacking American troops on the anniversary of the assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani), combined with Israeli media reports that Saudi Arabi and Israel are pressing Trump to bomb Iran before he leaves office, has fueled speculation that Trump may be planning his biggest — and likely most disastrous — stunt yet. Trump has made more thre...

Rahul Singh PRime Minister Narendra Modi has excelled himself by getting the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, as the chief guest for Republic Day. There is some bit of uncertainty over his visit owing to the pandemic-induced restrictions in place in the United Kingdom, but it is a good occasion to reflect on India-UK ties, especially since 1947. For a start, Johnson has a close family connection with India. His second wife, Marina Wheeler, is half-Indian. In fact, Marina’s mother, Dip Kaur, was a Sikh. She was married to my father Khushwant Singh’s youngest brother, Daljit. They div...