My list of the best and worst people of 2025 - including Sydney Sweeney, Anthony Albanese, Eurovision, Virginia Giuffre and more!

I cannot believe I was dumb enough to miss off my number one hero of 2025 - Ahmed Al Ahmed - happily this legend needs no introduction.

Exactly what it says it is, in a terrific year for album length releases.

In one of the most egregious acts in a history of them, the Australian news media has united to use the national tragedy of the massacre of Jews at Bondi Beach last week, solely to attack the Palestinian rights movement. Antisemitism here is only defined as opposition to Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip and the elephant in the room - the world's biggest driver OF antisemitism and international war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, never gets mentioned.

Few believe that Jeffrey Epstein's best friend of two decades, Donald Trump, broke up with him over Epstein's behavior towards young girls. Most Know it was over a Palm Beach property deal. Fewer know the juiciest part of this whole story - the accusations of Trump laundering money for Putin connected Russian Oligarchs.

Six months back I posted how Sussan Ley was only ever an interim manager for Australia's Liberal party, and would be rolled (likely over climate change) for yet another even more populist right wing goon squad. The only thing that's changed is the dim-witted Angus Taylor has been replaced by Andrew Hastie, a genuine christian MAGA. They STILL have no desire to win back the center. They will never ever learn.

I can't think of more successful activism in the last thirty-years than gay rights, which came from the notion understanding a group of people opposed to you today, could be allies tomorrow. Trans rights has been dominated by modern punitive activism, that has put many offside. Is the constant linking of the two dragging gay rights down?

Aussie Labor PM, Anthony Albanese, recently visited the UK and was greeted as a hero by UK Labour. The reason is, everything Albo gets right, the UK PM Keir Starmer gets hopelessly wrong. Their different approaches to protecting youth online being case in point.

Hundreds of thousands march in the biggest UK far right protest in years, led by an increasingly mainstreamed once outsider, Tommy Robinson. The UK's media bend over backwards to give unlimited press to the biggest con artist in UK political history, Nigel Farage and his Reform UK movement. Keir Starmer's unending failures are letting them both in.

The murder of Charlie Kirk - by an apparent (at this stage) lefty - has become a lightning rod media and cultural event. I'm not going through who Charlie was or what he said or represented, instead I'm looking at how did political and media discussion get so toxic, the hypocrisy and gaslighting surrounding Kirk's death and what Trump is likely to do with it.

I've said recently how NSW state premier, Chris Minns, reminds me a lot of the UK's Keir Starmer, as both seem more concerned with appealing to the right than their own voters, but weakening Australian guns laws at a time when there are more guns in the country than before the Port Arthur massacre is insanity. Especially when faced with sovereign citizens shooting up police.