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**Warning: This article contains graphic references to cannibalism and torture. Reader discretion is advised.** Three million files related to the activities of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released by the Trump administration last week. A joint effort by Deepcut News and The Shot has seen thousands of files read. While only scratching the surface,…

“Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” – Rage Against the Machine The state-sanctioned, IDF-trained, ICE murders on the streets of Minneapolis. The genocidal massacres of Gaza, Sudan and Congo. The Albanese government and Coles supermarket signing contracts with Palantir, corporate dealers of mass surveillance and death on an AI-fuelled platter. Isaac Herzog’s…

It might seem a far cry from Australia’s Adelaide Festival in the summer of 2026 and a West Virginian ladies club in the winter of 1950, but they both carry the taint of hysterical and unsubstantiated public accusations that ended in tales of woe. In his speech at a Republican ladies’ club in 1950, US…

For many Adelaideans, Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) is the highlight of their year. A glorious six days when the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens in the heart of the city is transformed into an intellectual Arcadia in which great minds from the worlds of literature, journalism and the academy gather under the sun and plane trees…

Breathe, slowly. It helps.  Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any further, that living without truth just ensures that we all die twice. Screaming into the void in the informative fashion we sometimes call journalism, the hardest part of work these last few years has been…

I’m angry. We’re all angry. Perhaps that’s part of the problem. At the moment, we’re angry at two twisted individuals on a Bondi footbridge who suddenly turned our country into something it isn’t. Or perhaps it is, and we simply haven’t noticed. We only notice what we must in this ugly billionaires’ world of unceasing…

Iceland has become the fifth country to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest—following Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Slovenia—in the latest disruption to an event already scarred by controversy over Israel’s inclusion. The singalong has never been a stranger to politics; it suspended Russia immediately after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Yet after another year…

“Know your enemy” – Rage Against the Machine At the greasy nexus of reality and satire that America straddles, more specifically at something called the 2025 McDonald’s Impact Summit, US President Donald Trump told a room full of cheeseburger capitalists to further immiserate their employees: “The minimum wage thing, you have to be talking about…

Around the West, mainstream figures are normalising far-right actors and ideas. Some of them, for example the Australian judiciary, do so because they do not understand the deep dangers to societal wellbeing of, say, Neo Nazi ideologies. Maybe young white men in suits do not look so dangerous to these inattentive citizens. Others are actively…

Affluent White men are really annoyed about steps towards giving other groups a fair go. Really bloody annoyed. To the point that a coalition of them is prepared to resuscitate old ideas about genetic determinism to prove that “science” says that they are the only ones fit to lead. And they won’t be told their…