Dean Johns

A case of ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’?

Head of the Australia Secret Intelligence Service recently saw it fit to be photographed with Rodrigo Duterte.

I find it hard to get a laugh out of the antics of Umno/BN regime's gang of alleged crooked clowns any longer.

On small wins against fake news. 

One reader seems to largely agree with my first point in last week's column.  

I took a break from my Sydney University course with little or no intention of ever resuming it.

Liu Xiaobo's death reminds us of the need for state reform.

'I just can’t cop the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) whodunit any longer'. 

'The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.' 

I’m still capable of convincing myself that I don’t yet have any of the senile varieties of dreaded dementia.

I admit the power of writing did little to help me this week. 

Symptom of monomania or even full-blown messiahmania.

Would critics be better off saving their breath?

Ensuring folk remain as dumb and docile as possible.

A maimed and misleading mindset?

Divided and ruled by fantasies and falsehoods.

Defusing or disarming the words they use as weapons.

Nothing but jokes at the citizens’ expense.

Facing the fears that kept them in thrall.

I owe it to myself to go right on expressing my allergy.