"My little Jacques, you’re making really magnificent things” Said Picasso to Chaim Jacob (Jacques) Lipchitz. 

The judge who was previously in charge of the Julian Assange extradition case was in the headlines again over another extradition case, this time refusing to extradite a UK couple because they faced a life sentence for murder, with no prospect of release.

Senior District Judge Emma Arbuthnot ruled that a London couple could not be extradited to India for trial over a double murder because, if convicted, they faced life imprisonment with no prospect of release – she said “an irreducible sentence” and a lack of a review would be “inhuman and degrading”, under the UK Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law.

We know we bullshit. We’re brilliant at it. Trying to understand the human condition has led men and women to read the future in the entrails of dead chickens and to build pyramids.

   The Conservative Party’s election victory is a personal tragedy for Jeremy Corbyn, whose quest to lead a transformative Labour government has ended in failure. 

 

Night, street and streetlight, drug store,

   Apparently, Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist Party have declared war on transcendence. Not the first ruler to do this mind you. Transcendence has been a spiritual plague on the monkeys since they fell like sun-cooked avocados on the grass-plains and multiplied like rabbits.

Let’s not beat around the bush. The game is rigged. The fix is in.

A second plane load of Australian coronavirus evacuees from Wuhan will be quarantined at an unused mining camp near Darwin.

Liberal party claims declaration of a $165k donation by Morrison ally was a mistake

Exclusive: Scott Briggs, bidding for the visa privatisation contract, denies claims he made the donation through the company Southern Strategy.

Q&A did not disappoint the punters... The new presenter, Amish McDonald seems to have taken a controversial point of view when asking a question:

 

“Clearly there are a lot of Australians that are happy with the policy settings that may agree with Jim Molan’s scepticism, open-mindedness, about the science. Are you saying to all of them that their brains have fallen out?”

 

Yes, This is what we're saying... including the brains of the Murdoch media.

 

 

The Prime Minister has sought to distance his office from a scandal-plagued sports grants program threatening the political future of a senior minister.