Derangement continues
It’s hard not to despair at the state of politics at the moment. Perhaps it has always been this cringeworthy and terrible, but now we have the 24-hour news cycle, …
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Sinking funds, not sinking islands
Humouring the neighbourhood with taxpayers’ money: Australia will be expected to contribute to a new $US1.5 billion Pacific Resilience Facility to help island nations adapt to the impacts of rising …
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The new 60:20 rule
It’s difficult to have a properly working democracy and decent government finances when the government is a sugar daddy for most citizens: The top fifth of households by income are …
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No more ABCDE for your ABC?
Judging by the test results, the learning outcomes in Australian schools are at best stagnating in absolute terms and declining relatively to other OECD countries. This is a problem for …
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Stabby in Amsterdam and bomby in Cairo
It is somewhat surreal, though sadly not unexpected, to see the spots I had walked on not that long ago becoming scenes of terrorist attacks. I swear it’s not me; …
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Doctor Doctor, gimme the news, I’ve got a bad case of mocking you
The new slogan for The Daily Chrenk should henceforth be “TDC – read it all here two days before News.com.au catches onto it”. I wasn’t going to blog about this …
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Equality of nudity
Brit ladies and gentlemen will now have the equal opportunity to perv on Renaissance babes and hunks, thanks to the equalitarian initiative by the UK’s premier art institution: The Royal …
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Obama doesn’t heart Abbott
George W Bush was lucky – during his two terms in the White House he got to deal with one – and good one – Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. …
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“America is moving toward an oligarchical socialism”
This might be the most important piece you will read today, or maybe this week, from my favourite urbanist and demographer Joel Kotkin: Oligarchal socialism allows for the current, ever-growing …
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Graduating from the jihad school
A few days ago, the authorities have botched the child neglect case against three out of five adults in the New Mexico compound where eleven children were allegedly being trained …
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Victoria doesn’t have a gang problem; it has a policing problem
Another mass riot in Melbourne, another official “meh”; Victoria Police top brass are reeling from deepening criticism that their no-arrest policy is failing to tame teen gangs following a violent …
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The Polish Enigma
Dermot Turing, the nephew of the famous code breaker and one of the fathers of the computer, Alan (“The Imitation Game”, pretty good movie) writes about a very little known …
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Familiarity breeds contempt
The result of this study seems counter-intuitive, but it’s not: Dwelling in a political echo chamber — where you only encounter people who agree with you — is hardly conducive …
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The passing world of 1 September
Today is the 79th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, and as I was pondering on that date, I realised that with one exception, there is no …
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China: Islam as mental illness
China is pretty much what the left pretends America to be. Unapologetically so and virtually impervious to any outside pressure, which means hardly anyone on the left actually bothers to …
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Islamists win by default
Radical feminism and radical Islam agree that men have no self-control and women should be kept cloistered and separated for their own good and protection. Now that Sweden has been …
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