Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Not many locations, I reckon, where you see autographs from these two in the same place. 020 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I have a feeling that Lotty might not be a real person working in the "filed" of tourism. 010 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I think I'd be a bit more circumspect if I was intending to run for President soon. Plus I'd get my boss to put his name on the deal. PS. Where's Rubio? 101 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Syrup or action? Look forward to seeing this tested in the next Newspoll. 100 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 07/06/2026AI makes such odd claims in response to ordinary queries. 158 days down, 207 to go. The midpoint of the year. Huh? 011 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 31/05/2026There are times when I despair about what gets written in supposedly or otherwise serious books. 000 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Kudos to whomever left a pile of these in the lounges in Canberra airport. 020 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Australia’s new national security policy just dropped. 010 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 21/04/2026The alarm bells in Delhi must be deafening now. And I can't imagine that Sharif, the nominal leader of Pakistan, would be impressed by being named after Munir. 100 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 11/04/2026L'Arc de Trump. Complete with Iranian-operated toll booth for all those who want to pass through it. 130 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 24/03/2026“Cyber security is my passion” Canberra rental car edition. 030 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The rise of political - and militant - Christianism. 120 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Zhongnanhai must be a riot right now. I bet they can barely believe their luck. 001 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I mean, we’ve all been there, one way or another. I’m sure Fulvia had her reasons… 000 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The internet? Broken? Perish the thought. PS. No one died on QF32 but for some reason, this comes up very regularly. 010 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 27/02/2026It is reassuring that despite the arrival of a new bunch of lunatics on the British political stage, the old, established and mostly benign loonies are still going. 051 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Carl Schmitt would have expressed this more elegantly, but "He who saves his country violates no law" is straight from his school of pseudo-intellectual Nazism. 000 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Behold the sharp wit and subtle banter of debate in the Mother of Parliaments! 131 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Very hard to imagine that a major Indian paper would have published a picture like this under Trump 1.0. 020 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Xi Jinping will be pleased. A "new era" indeed. Yikes. 110 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 15/01/2026What a paragraph. Reminds you of what political journalism used to be like. From this Renfrew Christie obituary. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... 000 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Folks, I know no one wants to listen to professors anymore, but here’s Google’s AI on Thucydides, the strong and the weak, and all that… 040 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 22/12/2025If I could turn back time If I could find a way I'd take back those words that have hurt you and you'd stay If I could reach the stars, I'd give 'em all to you Then you'd love me, love me like you used to do, ohh... 030 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The verbal lengths to which we will go to avoid the word "basing". 041 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 24/11/2025I’m not sure what they have put in the water at DFAT recently, but whatever they have done has stimulated the writing of a lot of new diplomatic memoirs. Looking forward to reading this one from Lachlan Strahan…all 550-odd pages! 010 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Idly reading through an enterprise agreement and…oh… I had no idea there were set rates for that kind of thing. 010 0
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Depressing to see that Indian communities in Australia are now being targeted with these phone scams, which have long been a problem for Chinese communities, including international students. This message has been posted on the Indian High Commission's website. 011 0