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Josh Szeps

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 18, 2026
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Top 50K sites
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Jul 23, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Josh Szeps

    Here are some travel hacks to fly high like a politician (opens the original)

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    I’m ascending through glinting puffs of cloud at the pointy end of a Singapore Airlines 787. There’s nowhere I’d rather be than lounging here in airline pyjamas, being waited on like a modern-day maharaja. A bottomless glass of deliciousness in my hand, the smell of satay in the galley, a book by my side, a playlist of movies on a nice big screen. It’s fantastic, flying like this. No wonder Australian politicians are hooked. The federal transport minister revealed this week that she has received

  2. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Josh Szeps

    Jason Arday’s life and death show how nasty identity politics game is (opens the original)

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    My guest explained my whiteness to me patiently. Her voice was syrupy in my earpiece: “As a white man, I don’t expect you to be able to understand what people of colour are actually seeing.” Under hot studio lights, I frowned down the barrel of the TV camera, bamboozled. It was 2014. She was an Asian-American anti-racism activist. I was a host at HuffPost Live, a New York-based television network. She’d been booked to discuss her campaign to have Stephen Colbert fired for an apparently offensive

  3. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Josh Szeps

    Culture war ideologues have hijacked Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey (opens the original)

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    Elon Musk has opinions about Homer now. When Christopher Nolan cast a black actress as Helen of Troy and a trans man as a Greek soldier, Musk branded him an “anti-white racist” who “desecrated” the Odyssey. Donald Trump Jr piled on. X went berserk. Nothing less than the fate of Western civilisation hinged on getting your knickers in a knot about what late-Bronze Age Greeks really looked like. More than half a million people reportedly bombarded the trailer with down-votes on YouTube. This was be

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