Campaigning with communists
Thank you, Huffington Post Australia, for publishing a lovely fluff piece about “a day on the campaign trail†with Australia’s most disgusting politician, the Greens’ NSW Senator Lee Rhiannon. As …
Read MoreMonth: June 2016
Of roots in brothels and dreadful campaigns
Earlier today I set up two A-frames on the side of a busy local road and campaigned for my old mate Trevor Evans, if standing next to two A-frames on …
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See Nige rip
Nigel Farage is not particularly my kind of a guy, but I will give him this – he is the most epic parliamentary troll in the world today. Check out …
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Dear England, Love, Polish Vermin
Dear England Forgive me for taking some of your valuable time as you agonise over your destiny and your future. Existential crises are tough; I know, I have them all …
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Shock new EU memo, or why the EU still doesn’t get it
The European Union says they get it. Then they show they don’t. This is pretty much the only conclusion I can draw from reading a leaked copy of the post-Brexit …
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Identity politics jihadi-style: you killed the wrong people, Omar
Al Qaeda has posthumously chastised ISIS allegiant Omar Mateen for muddling the message by shooting gay Latinos instead of non-sexuality specific Anglos. In their online magazine “Inspireâ€, Al Qaeda in …
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Democracy and its discontents
In Winston Churchill’s famous formulation, democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others. Not that we haven’t tried throughout history: monarchy, oligarchy, autocracy, theocracy, even the …
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Eat the old (updated)
No issue recently has split the generations more – and more acrimoniously – than Brexit. Whether 66 per cent of young Brits voted to “Remainâ€, as polling suggested, or maybe …
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It’s the end of the world as we know it. I’m fine, you?
A few very brief thoughts about Brexit, in no particular order: 1) This could be the beginning of the end of the United Kingdom. The “Celtic fringeâ€, certainly Scotland and …
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The Joy of Sex* (and Books)
I have been coming to Bookfests since the very first one, more than twenty years ago. In case you’re not from around here, Bookfest is a twice-yearly, biggest charity book …
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The Daily Outrage
You know what, Labor? Screw you. Here I was complaining on Facebook earlier that I can’t seem to get outraged by anything today. Then I went shopping and on the …
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All you need is love, and other great moments in American law enforcement
It’s has been a last few days for Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and by great I mean shocking and sackable. First, there was the brilliant decision to release the transcripts …
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Happy Barbarossa
Seventy-five years ago today, the Soviet Union, as it then was, was invaded by German hipsters. Seventy-five years ago today, the Soviet Union, could start pretending the Second World War …
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Real tradies, and the really real tradies
So the Liberal Party put up a tradie ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fse0sm05V-8 The ad was mercilessly ridiculed on the social media, in part because the tradie was supposedly a fake tradie. Though he …
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Who are the mass shooters?
After every mass shooting and/or terrorist attack there comes the inevitable finger-pointing, blame-shifting, point-scoring and politicising. Understandably, no one wants to get tarred by association, however vague and tenuous, with …
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FBI folds, unredacts
Following public and political outrage at the announcement they would be releasing redacted transcripts of Omar Mateen’s call from Pulse nightclub, FBI folded and has now published transcripts in full, …
Read More Chrenxit redux
Two days from now, Great Britain will decide whether it wants in or out. Listening to the Remain supporters one gets the impression that should Brexit get up, Britain will …
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Old and busted: German militarism. Not-so-new but still hot: Russian militarism
Germany is a stellar example that culture, while difficult to change, can change. Not all of it, not completely, and it might take a war, a devastating defeat, an occupation, …
Read More I’m Omar Mateen, I pledge my allegiance to [bleep]
So FBI will be releasing “partial transcripts†of the calls made by the Orlando murderer Omar Mateen to law enforcement agencies from inside Pulse nightclub. Attorney General Loretta Lynch explains …
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The moral idiocy of moral equivalence, or why I loathe self-loathing
I love the Gosford Anglican Church. It’s the church I would be attending if I wasn’t interested in the actual religion but my favourite pieties were political. Which is why …
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