Josh Szeps
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- Sep 18, 2026
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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
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
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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