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Month: August 2016

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Politics

To burqini or not to burqini

August 19, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

After Cannes and Villeneuve-Loubet on the French Riviera, Sisco on the island of Corsica became the third municipality to ban wearing of burqini on local beaches. The ban follows on …

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Life / Politics

I was a young communist

August 18, 2016May 17, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Time for a terrible confession: I was a young communist. The only things I can put up in my defence are: I was 6 years old, and only for less …

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Politics

Our lives are in the best of hands

August 18, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff - 1 Comment

In early December, Sydneysiders and Australians in general will remember the second anniversary of the deadly Lindt chocolate café siege. After a sixteen-hour stand-off, one of the eighteen hostages inside …

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Politics

The boy who cried fascism

August 17, 2016August 17, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

By labelling every mainstream conservative extremist, bigoted, sexist, racist, homophobic, and probably a fascist, the left has devalued these descriptions to such an extent that it’s completely unprepared to face …

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Politics

London’s Khan Hunts Trolls While Crime Soars

August 17, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

(I don’t know what it is about the UK, London and its new Lord Mayor Sadiq Khan that just makes me write tabloid headlines – see also my earlier post …

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Politics

This election is not Trump vs Hillary, it might be Pence vs Kaine

August 16, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

This presidential election ostensibly pits Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton. In reality, though, there are good reasons to think of the contest in terms of a choice between Trump and …

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Culture / Happiness / Life

Should Brisbane bid for the 2028 Olympics?

August 16, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As everyone knows, there are a few things that bore me more than sport, and particularly reading and writing about it, but we’re talking about my backyard (literally; I think …

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Politics

Scarecrow a day keeps a migrant away

August 16, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The bizarre story of the day comes courtesy of Hungary, whose right-wing government (and by right-wing I mean in European terms, i.e. nationalist, populist, with slightly authoritarian tendencies) hasn’t been …

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Life / Politics

How the Poles saved the Western civilisation

August 15, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Ninety-six years ago, the Poles saved Europe, and I bet most of you don’t even know about it. On 14-15 August 1920, newly-formed Soviet Red Army, commanded by the legendary …

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Politics

Gosford Anglicans vs Party for Freedom – a plague on both your houses

August 15, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Yesterday, a group of yobbos known as the Party for Freedom staged a noisy anti-Islamic protest during the Sunday mass at the Gosford Anglican Church. I wasn’t previously aware of …

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Happiness / Life / Politics

How To Lose Friends While Influencing People

August 15, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Two stories, linked to next to each other on Drudge, recently caught my attention. The titles pretty much say it all: “He Likes Trump. She Doesn’t. Can This Marriage Be …

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Politics

Happy birthday Fidel

August 14, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Dear Fidel Can I call you Fidel? We haven’t met, but I feel like I know you quite well, or at least your ilk. I’m normally more formal and respectful …

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Life / Politics

In defence of Tsarist repression (well, sort of, not quite)

August 13, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One day, when I’m rich and famous, I’m going to set up the Daily Chrenk Foundation to train journalists who write stories and sub-editors who write the headlines to know …

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Culture / Politics

How racist is your sausage?

August 13, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The adult animated comedy “Sausage Party” has hit the cinemas (or theatres, depending on where you live) this week, and is drawing fire from the Social Justice Warrior squad for …

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shah
Politics

Let’s criminalise blasphemy so we don’t have to kill the blasphemers

August 12, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I might be verballing some of the people quoted in the BBC reporting, but not by much. On 24 March this year, Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah was brutally murdered in …

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Politics

A modest proposal to solve the European refugee crisis

August 11, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Anyone can become a refugee. According to a United Nations Refugee Convention definition, refugee is anyone who cannot remain in their own country because of a well-founded fear of persecution …

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Politics

Time to stop funding the Clinton Foundation?

August 11, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Revelations about the Clintons’ donations-for-favours scandal continue with a new batch of leaked emails: Hillary Clinton put the State Department up for sale, with top aides pulling strings and doing …

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Politics

Hillary and the Tale of Two Muslim Fathers

August 10, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One a father of an Army hero, the other a father of a terrorist villain. The common thread – the Hillary campaign. Khizr Khan, flanked by his wife Ghazala, spoke …

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Politics

Thinking of an overseas holiday? Consider Gaza

August 10, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Gaza – not an Islamist hellhole, after all, but a sparklingly exotic Mediterranean oasis, full of shiny happy people – at least according to this Hamas election ad. The Hamas …

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Politics

Dear American friends, you know that thing about electronic voting? Please don’t

August 10, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

If Donald Trump thinks the elections are rigged right now, just wait until some bright, tech-savvy spark in charge decides to introduce electronic voting. Whole cemeteries voting Democrat and fistfuls …

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