Politics
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Want to save the planet, go nuclear
Amidst general gloom and doom, a small ray of light, showing that sometimes scare campaigns and endless demonisation does not work. This from polling published today by Essential about Australian …
Culture
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Hills are alive with the sound of white supremacy
The story of the present times is the never-ending race to out-idiot each other on the way to the bottom: The University of Oxford is considering scrapping sheet music for …
History
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Reparate my ass
The other day I have been called a “toff”, “tax dodger”, “ass”, “whataboutery wanker”, “sociopath”, “revisionist”, “bigot”, “sordid”, “tendentious”, “arguer for wrong”, and a genocide apologist who deserves it happening …
Books
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A Bookseller of Wooloowin
When I was seven years old I dreamed of one day owning a bookshop. When I was seven years old I also thought that somebody in their mid-40s was very old; …
WTF
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Did it have information that could lead to Hillary Clinton’s arrest? UPDATED
The mysterious Utah monolith is gone, according to the authorities (it was situated on public land): When I initially came across the preview of the above story, my first reaction …
Love
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From the University of the Obvious
Some academics make it very hard to argue against funding cuts to higher education. Take, for example, this groundbreaking research into the online dating apps: New research from William Chopik, …
