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April 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

LEST WE FORGET YASSMIN ABDEL-MAGIED HERE SHE IS AGAIN – Like Helen of Troy, Yassmin is a turban that launched a thousand tweets. Last year she was one, this year …

Culture / Politics

April 19, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WOKE IS MURDER – It’s interesting to watch the slow transformation of the ex-Smiths frontman Morrissey from the darling of the alternative world to a “controversial” figure who spouts decidedly …

Politics

April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOGGING THE SPOTLIGHT – Someone’s in their 16th minute of fame at the moment: After starting an advertiser boycott of Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham, gun-control activist David Hogg …

Politics

April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SWEDEN: ROXETTE ONE DAY, ROCKETS THE NEXT – Things must be pretty bad if even Politico.eu take note: Sweden may be known for its popular music, IKEA and a generous …

Happiness / Life

April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

INDIAN DATER FROM INDIANAPOLIS – Are unsuccessful dates refundable? A woman has shared her horror online after being mailed an invoice for her half of a dinner date after she …

Politics

April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOW TO MAKE A LITTLE GIRL CRY – In these woke days of ours it’s even easier than before: My daughter started crying at the dentist office bc the dentist …

Politics

April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THEY SHOULD START CHARGING TRUMP RENT FOR LIVING IN THEIR HEADS – Since January, each book at the top of The New York Times best-seller list has had one thing …

Politics

April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHEN STREET ARTISTS INVADE – My American readers, please make Mr Drew welcome as he draws on your walls: It’s much easier to be controversial online. When you take a …

Life

April 17, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

KOALAS GO WILD ON BRISBANE TINDER – This is more than a koala can bear: Australia’s iconic koala has a problem that keeps boomeranging back. Chlamydia, a type of sexually transmitted disease …

Happiness / Life

April 16, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PRIVATE SCHOOL DATING – When you use your old school tie to tie up your girlfriend to a bed: The world’s first dating app for the privately-educated has launched — …

Politics

April 16, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

ROBOCAPITAL, OR DO COMMUNISTS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? – A warning from the Bank of England via your friendly neighbourhood tabloid: Mark Carney warned the automation of jobs currently done by …

Politics

April 14, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FACEBOOK VS THE DAILY CHRENK – Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by a few Senators about the political bias at Facebook, which results in right-of-centre members being kicked …

Politics

April 14, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“GOOD SOULS WILL NOT BE HUMILIATED”– So tweets Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad after the United States, Great Britain and France started dropping some heavy ordinance in and around Damascus. Though …

History / Politics

Guest Post: Nazism and Fascism: Left or Right?

April 13, 2018August 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Today’s guest post is by another friend of The Daily Chrenk, Dr Lee Cox, who sheds more light on the ideological tar baby that is fascism/Nazism, unwanted by both sides …

Politics

Syria: There is no happy endings

April 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The world stands poised on the edge of an abyss, just a few wrong moves away from another world war, all over a large and unattractive expanse of sand on …

Politics

April 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“MEGAN MCARDLE IS A TROLL”– Megan McArdle braves the editorial pages of “The Washington Post” to argue that, while not morally equivalent, the discrimination, bias and prejudice that conservatives experience inside …

Politics

April 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“STRIP SEARCH” PART 2 – Still no answers, but more and more questions about the raid on Donald Trump’s lawyer, via Allahpundit at Hot Air: Trump naturally blames Mueller for all of …

Politics

April 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THIS IS NO LAUGHING GAS – From the people who brought you Saudi Arabia as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council: Despite accusations that it perpetrated yet …

Politics

April 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WILL THEY EVER FORGIVE ZUCK? I see a tweet like this and have three instant takeaways: 1. Twitter usership heavily skews left. Apart from tweets from Trump himself, I can’t …

Politics

April 11, 2018April 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE BEST TAKES ON “MR ZUCKERBERG GOES TO WASHINGTON”– Twitter can be awful at the best of time, but when it’s good it’s great. Mark Zuckerberg to be grilled by …