From Tyrie’s scaffold to Riyadh’s bone saw: the World Cup, the FIFA Peace Prize, and the audit that removed the crimes before it began. Urban Wronski looks.
Category: Political Satire, International Affairs, US Politics, Democracy and Autocracy, Op-Ed
Canossa on the South Lawn
In 1077 a king knelt three days in the snow at Canossa, and it worked. Nine and a half centuries on, the pope-king turns eighty behind a cage on the South Lawn while the pretenders queue: a trillionaire, a Crown Prince, and a deputy sheriff paying by direct debit. Urban Wronski on the new Investiture Controversy.
Donald John “Two-Weeks” Trump: The Work-Experience Boy from Hell
He’s always a mate of a mate and he’s never paying you back. So it is with the deal-maker president, whose “two weeks” has become the most transparent stall in modern diplomacy. Part Three of the Iran war series: the farce, the spoiler in Tel Aviv, the donors and enforcers, and the West Australian gas giant cashing in on the carnage.
The Monster They Made (Part 1)
The coup did not sow the seeds for the Islamic Revolution. It constructed the machinery. SAVAK liquidated every secular democrat who might have led a modern Iran. The mosque was left standing because it was the one institution the secret police found too difficult to penetrate. Every morning the Australian media tells us the bombing is regrettable but the regime is monstrous. It does not explain who built the regime.
The King’s Speech: A Royal Masterclass in Diplomatic Evisceration
On 28 April 2026, King Charles III stood before a joint session of Congress and delivered twenty minutes of perfectly calibrated diplomatic napalm. He spoke of Magna Carta, judicial independence, NATO and the rule of law. Donald Trump stood there smiling and felt the warmth of the room. He missed everything else.
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