Ed Sheeran is the latest in a long line of well meaning folk, to put the boot into Band Aid's song, Do They Know it's Christmas? For its condescending lyrics. Prompting its co-writer Bob Geldof to fire back at "an abstract wealthy-world argument". The lyrics, near written on a beer mat over a couple of days, were never meant to be examined as a treatise on Africa for the next forty years. They were written on the fly to inspire or guilt trip the British record buying public of 1984, to provide immediate aid to starving people. It led to Live Aid pumping hundred of millions of aid into one of the worst famines of the century. This is why we can't have nice things.

After being everyone's favorite, decrepit uncle in the face of fascism, Joe Biden has had a horrific final two years in public office. He is shaping as public enemy number one in returning Trump to power - for two main reasons, his deeply unpopular wars - especially Gaza with progressive democrats, and his handling of his own succession. The party too are equally to blame for ignoring the progressives within and the threat from without.

Anyone thinking this time would be like the last time, is living in delusional alley. Nothing screams that louder than the insane picks for the highest offices in the land.

*since this was broadcast live, the cheery, lovable Matt Gaetz has "quit".

According to the World's media, politicians and even the King of Denmark for some reason, Amsterdam descended into a pogrom like wave of anti-Jewish violence, after a soccer game between an Israeli club and Dutch Titans Ajax. The media narrative was set. It's just they missed out a few facts, like how the whole thing started with Maccabi fans - know for racism and violence back in Israel - tearing down and burning a Palestinian flag, attacking an Arab looking taxi driver and walking through the streets chanting anti-Arab slogans. Even footage the world media claimed was Jewish locals being attacked by racists, was in fact Maccabi fans attacking locals.

It's been eight years since I got an election wrong, and the irony of the last time being Trump winning in 2016 is not lost on me. One thing I didn't get wrong is that Democrat voter apathy would decide this election and by a mile it did. With Trump's vote near unchanged from his massive 2020 defeat, over 10 million Biden voters failed to turn up for Harris. 13 takeaways from this epoch defining election.

The parallels between Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election and Adolf Hitler in the Germany 1933 election are overwhelming. From the treatment of vote counters, to the judiciary, to opposition politicians to the media to the weaponization of race. This time though it's with the benefit of hindsight. The outcome could shape the Western world for a generation, lead to civil war and the end of empire. High stakes indeed.

After being promised a landslide victory in Queensland, once again, the Liberal vote fell way short of both the polls and the media predictions. Aussie PM Anthony Albanese would've been smiling broadly at the result. If this were repeated at next years federal election, Albo will walk it. Sadly for the people of Queensland, with a lackluster win, the right-wing, onward Christian soldiers in the Liberals and fringe parties, will be out for their pound of silver.

In a modern world crushed by anxiety, election cycles are unbearable. But that's because the news media and polling companies need to sell a lie - that things are really close and changing every day. But they aren't, they just wouldn't have anything to sell if they didn't say that. I've got elections right for eight years now, and here's my stress free way to do so - with the benefit of you still winning if you lose.