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Binoy Kampmark
Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.
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The European Elections: The Assault on Austerity
Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 5:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It has been a busy weekend. France finds itself with a new president, its first socialist leader since François Mitterand left office in 1995. Greek voters flocked to the parties of the anti-bailout movement with indignant enthusiasm. The liberals seem ... More >>
The De-Civilising of Society: Apple Tax Avoidance
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 10:29 am | Binoy Kampmark
It’s been gaining traction in broad circles, but Charles Duhigg’s work on Apple and the iEconomy in the New York Times is alarming in its revelations, though few can claim to be too surprised by them. The world’s most profitable company is also ... More >>
Tymoshenko and Football
Saturday, 5 May 2012, 1:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A familiar battle is unfolding between sports and politics, with various countries taking a stance on Ukraine’s treatment of ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko. The choice of battleground is the Euro 2012 championships which are being co-hosted by the Ukraine ... More >>
Twenty Years On: Official Negligence, Rodney King, the Riots
Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 10:13 am | Binoy Kampmark
Even after twenty years, the Los Angeles riots that were precipitated as a reaction to the Rodney King trial divide rather than affirm positions. So much in the pursuit of life’s answers lies in exposing errors rather than unearthing truths. The King ... More >>
Adult Certification Needed: Lady Gaga in South Korea
Monday, 30 April 2012, 10:53 am | Binoy Kampmark
She has a habit of lousing up proceedings with a manic dedication. Now, Lady Gaga has overly impressed South Korean authorities and religious groups with her particular branding of religious interpretation and provocation. More >>
Strings of Power: Rupert Murdoch and the Leveson Inquiry
Monday, 30 April 2012, 10:48 am | Binoy Kampmark
One commentator observed that he seemed like a potentate disputing an arrangement of borders and obligations. Others noted that he was back to his calculating best, having abandoned his previously doddering manner after the closure of The News of ... More >>
Strings of Power: Rupert Murdoch and the Leveson Inquiry
Friday, 27 April 2012, 3:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Strings of Power: Rupert Murdoch and the Leveson Inquiry One commentator observed that he seemed like a potentate disputing an arrangement of borders and obligations. Others noted that he was back to his calculating best, having abandoned his previously ... More >>
Strings of Power: Rupert Murdoch and the Leveson Inquiry
Friday, 27 April 2012, 10:12 am | Binoy Kampmark
One commentator observed that he seemed like a potentate disputing an arrangement of borders and obligations. Others noted that he was back to his calculating best, having abandoned his previously doddering manner after the closure of The News of ... More >>
A Silly Sort of Patriotism: Meditations on ANZAC Day
Thursday, 26 April 2012, 9:16 am | Binoy Kampmark
Anzac Day is a volatile dynamic phenomenon (that) will keep changing as we do David Malouf More >>
The Le Pen Factor: France’s Presidential Elections
Monday, 23 April 2012, 1:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
As with every election, the readers of the tea leaves often have a habit of misreading the signs. Illiteracy stumbles in. Confusion becomes its own most valued currency. The first round of the French presidential elections revealed that Marine Le Pen ... More >>
Softening the Metal: Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 10:11 am | Binoy Kampmark
Gore Vidal claimed that the second unfortunate thing to befall Abraham Lincoln was not merely his assassination but falling into the hands of biographer Carl Sandburg. With such hideous hagiography, the actual historical figure shrinks just as his myth ... More >>
The ACLU and Obama’s Assassination Program
Monday, 2 April 2012, 12:42 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The policies around the assassination program of the United States are surreal. Trafficking in murder while espousing noble things is a habit regimes fall into, though the more sinister ones tend to use weasel words to conceal that fact. More >>
Binoy Kampmark: George Galloway and the Bradford Spring
Monday, 2 April 2012, 11:34 am | Binoy Kampmark
A looney, inhabiting a distant planet. A bomb thrower. A parliamentary absentee. Many things have been directed at George Galloway of the Respect Party, a few deserved. But when it came to his astonishing success in the polls in the Bradford West by-election, ... More >>
Binoy Kampmark: Civilian Policing: Killing Trayvon Martin
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 1:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
'Civilian Policing: Killing Trayvon Martin and Neighbourhood Watch' A hundred years of lynching, justifiable homicide. Same thing. Protester’s sign, Sanford, Mar 21, 2012 More >>
The Labor Wipe Out: The Queensland Elections
Sunday, 25 March 2012, 8:26 pm | Binoy Kampmark
When the tide goes out in Queensland, it goes out more quickly and more deeply than anywhere else. Senior Labor figure, The Punch , Mar 24, 2012 More >>
Nicolas Sarkozy and Criminal Visitations
Saturday, 24 March 2012, 4:31 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Collaring readers for ‘visiting’ internet sets? Jailing them for perusing matter accessible through the all pervasive world wide web, where curiosity abounds and internet sites are stumbled across and sampled like novelty gift items? This is the ... More >>
Binoy Kampmark: The Legacy of Rowan Williams
Friday, 23 March 2012, 2:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The legacy of Dr Rowan Williams, who has announced his resignation of the post of Archbishop of Canterbury effective later this year, will be a long debated one. The range of reactions was nothing short of astonishing, suggesting the enormity of the ... More >>
The Curse of Statistics: Tendulkar’s Hundredth Hundred
Monday, 19 March 2012, 1:38 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Cricket is a game of aesthetics, tactics and mind numbing statistics. The devil is always dominant in the game, given that the detail is everything and everywhere. While there is no reason why these need compete, they often do – issues of style ... More >>
Tax and Football: The Hollande Proposition
Monday, 19 March 2012, 1:35 pm | Binoy Kampmark
All presidential campaigns are bound to have moments of populist enthusiasm, but each is marked by a certain local twist. The French presidential elections, unlike those of the Americans, is being characterised less in the promises on what taxes ... More >>
Censoring the Netizen: The Enemies of the Internet
Monday, 19 March 2012, 1:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark
What a fabulous world we live in. Reporters without Borders has been busy putting together a list of international outcasts who have violated the sanctity of internet freedom, and come up with a decent gaggle. 2011, the organisation claims, was the ... More >>
