COLUMNIST: BINOY KAMPMARK

White Flag Judgments: Palestine Action, Protest and the UK Courts

5 hours ago | Feature Article

The justice system of the United Kingdom, represented by stout cathedral structures and solemn rituals, tends to resembl ...

Independents Be Wary: The Teals and the Hemlock of Party Politics

Jun 30, 2026 | Feature Article

The obsession, one verging on pathological, with political parties is producing its share of symptoms. These include, am ...

Adding to Failure: Amending Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban

Jun 28, 2026 | Feature Article

When something is not working, abandon it. The policy maker and politician, the latter often inclined to populist tempta ...

Ironic Fates: Bolton, Trump and Mishandling Classified Documents

Jun 27, 2026 | Feature Article

Former US national security advisor John Bolton and the President Donald J. Trump share traits neither probably knew the ...

Starmer Begone: Another Dud Leaves Number 10

Jun 24, 2026 | Feature Article

It is one of the most remarkable ways to fall from grace. Leading British Labour to a deceptively crushing victory over ...

Leasing Sovereignty: Gina Rinehart’s Ravings on Israel, Taiwan and Elon Musk

Jun 23, 2026 | Feature Article

Israeli defence personnel and politicians might not be top billing in the boardrooms and reception halls of many countri ...

The Cult of Banderism: The UPA and Poland-Ukraine Relations

Jun 22, 2026 | Feature Article

Whatever the high-minded rhetoric and spirited calls to guarding civilisation against oriental barbarism, the ongoing su ...

Lion’s Den Politics: Pauline Hanson at the National Press Club

Jun 21, 2026 | Feature Article

Pauline Hanson has been a fixture of Australian politics since 1996, when she appeared with piercing, shrill bravado as ...

Nasty Fictions: The Global University Ranking System

Jun 19, 2026 | Feature Article

Ranking universities remains a misleading, fatuous exercise as useful as comparing the tasteful qualities of, say, depen ...

Emulated Silliness: The UK Under-16 Social Media Ban

Jun 17, 2026 | Feature Article

Never make laws regarding the unmeasurable and the uncontainable. The silliness of these injunctive measures can only co ...

Back to Bad Beginnings: The Iran-US Memorandum of Understanding

Jun 16, 2026 | Feature Article

Let us, if only briefly, give thanks for the peacemakers, whatever their poor qualifications and whatever folly drove th ...

Sporting with Steroids: The Enhanced Games Flop in Las Vegas

Jun 14, 2026 | Feature Article

Take steroids, boy. You know you want to. That was the unvarnished message for the competitors in Las Vegas for the firs ...

The Elon Musk Cult: Drooling in the SpaceX Bubble

Jun 13, 2026 | Feature Article

The fourth estate has taken leave of its senses again, not that much is left for the exercise of those frail faculties. ...

The FIFA World Cup: Caught on the Visa Snag

Jun 11, 2026 | Feature Article

The FIFA Men rsquo;s World Cup of 2026 was always going to offer visitors and spectators something different. Shared bet ...

Beached Arguments: Pete Hegseth, JD Vance and European Immigration

Jun 9, 2026 | Feature Article

Waxworks have nothing to say, but when incarnated in the form of former Fox News anchor and, at a pinch, ldquo;personal ...

Investigating the Foolish: The AUKUS Public Inquiry Is Announced

Jun 7, 2026 | Feature Article

Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, that most draining, useless and even pernicious of security pacts, Australia h ...

Repetitive Folly: Israel’s Futile War in Lebanon Deepens

Jun 4, 2026 | Feature Article

Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and hom ...

Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University. Email: [email protected]. More He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, teaching within the Bachelor of Social Science (Legal and Dispute Studies) program.

Binoy’s research and teaching interests lie in the intersections of law, international relations and history. Much of his research and teaching involves the examination of conflict, diplomacy, and the various crises confronting international society including refugees, terrorism, ‘rogue’ states and undocumented citizens.

Binoy has written extensively in both refereed journals and more popular media on his research interest topics of the institution of war, diplomacy, international relations, 20th century history and law.

The quality of his research has been acknowledged in awards made by the US-based International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and Limina, journal of the History Department of the University of Western Australia.

Media expertise
Binoy is available for media interviews and comments as an expert on international and national security, terrorism, the war on terror and politics.

He has been interviewed for National Public Radio in the United States, Radio National in Australia, and radio stations in South Africa. He is also a regular contributor to online publications including The Conversation, Eureka Street, CounterPunch (US) and Scoop (NZ).

Binoy was also commissioned by the UK History Channel in December 2007 to January 2008 to write package descriptions for the American Civil War, and in March 2006 to write a package on World War II: The War in the West, 1943-1945.