Hello from Melbourne, Australia.

The World Cup...Russia...2018. Without Italy and the Netherlands making the cut, Germany to win, and win easily. Brazil to come second. Any views on that?

from the blog : People usually dont get the importance of Korea. It's importance is due to where it is...the most desired location on earth...the most volatile location on earth...the most and only likely place there could ever commence a world war. North Asia is the world's trade hub and centre for everyone. No one really cares about the Middle East, no one really cares about Jews and Arabs anymore. That's not where the future is. If peace in the Middle East was important, it would have happened years ago. Lets talk about where peace is essential for the whole world: KOREA...the pivot of the world economy for the next 100 years. The meeting point of the tectonic plates where the future of Korea, China, Russia, Japan and the USA all push against each other. The best thing for Korea to do would be, North and South, to work out a peace for their own country without involving, especially, the USA, which lives a long way away, and importantly excluding Japan who North and South equally both despise for very good reasons. The Americans shouldn't be involved at all because they don't 'do' peace, and they just should go home to protect America. China and Russia are neighbours and need to be in the talks, but no one else should be in the talks if the talks are to lead to peace. I dont think it is important that North Korea de-nuclearises, and I dont think South Korea cares about that either. South Korea , like North Korea, just wants to be KOREA, one nation. Nuclear defence for both. I think that would be best for Korea and for world peace and for world development.

from the blog : People usually dont get the importance of Korea. It's importance is due to where it is...the most desired location on earth...the most volatile location on earth...the most and only likely place there could ever commence a world war. North Asia is the world's trade hub and centre for everyone. No one really cares about the Middle East, no one really cares about Jews and Arabs anymore. That's not where the future is. If peace in the Middle East was important, it would have happened years ago. Lets talk about where peace is essential for the whole world: KOREA...the pivot of the world economy for the next 100 years. The meeting point of the tectonic plates where the future of Korea, China, Russia, Japan and the USA all push against each other. The best thing for Korea to do would be, North and South, to work out a peace for their own country without involving, especially, the USA, which lives a long way away, and importantly excluding Japan who North and South equally both despise for very good reasons. The Americans shouldn't be involved at all because they don't 'do' peace, and they just should go home to protect America. China and Russia are neighbours and need to be in the talks, but no one else should be in the talks if the talks are to lead to peace. I dont think it is important that North Korea de-nuclearises, and I dont think South Korea cares about that either. South Korea , like North Korea, just wants to be KOREA, one nation. Nuclear defence for both. I think that would be best for Korea and for world peace and for world development.

as things on the korean peninsula warm up now, the blog will be mostly about that....and the World Cup in Russia.

Football, sometimes called Soccer is a great game. You don't need great players to field a great team. You need a paranoid dramatic goalkeeper, you need a stoic central sweeper connecting defence with counter-attack, and you need one lazy narcissistic striker who just hangs around and doesn't run much, and is just a simple and observant predator. The rest of the players just connect with those 3. Any team with those characteristics is a very fierce team indeed.

As for the Hellenic Republic....I'm sure if you don't pay your staff, screw them to the wall, etc you can do great things as a chef and as an international culinary artist. Naah. Not for me. I would get awful indigestion from that degustation. After all, it is just something too expensive to eat. I lived in paris, years ago, and, true, it was cheaper to eat money than to dine in the certain restaurants, and it is a shame to see this same thing here in melbourne. Not only that it is cheaper to eat money, but, the cunt who runs the place is such a respected doyen of the Eating Class simply because he does screw his workers. Appalling. This is not Australia. George Colombaris: "Im so sorry I am a violent and aggressive narcissist, please love me, come to my restaurants"....no. In general I have enormous respect for people who fail at being human, because they did at least once try, but, as for George Colombaris, ....naaah. Eat yourself George.

Friend of Mrs Fitz, Spanish world scholar, arriving tomorrow. We've chosen for the 4 of us to go to restaurant Hellenic Republic, in Kew, Victoria, owned by an apparently famous international chef who reportedly bastardly underpays and bullies and screws his youthful staff...and bashes opposing football fans...George Colombaris. An elegant Greek Cuisine, apparently. I will review it. I will forward a copy to George Pell. Like Show More Reactions Comment Share Comments John Arthur Fitzpatrick John Arthur Fitzpatrick on 2nd thoughts, naah. Manage LikeShow More Reactions · Reply · 24m John Arthur Fitzpatrick John Arthur Fitzpatrick cancelled...booked local Yannis instead. Manage