“ALP: Thought Crimes Unit” – what to expect in season 7
Big changes are in store for the ACTU/ABC/Fairfax’s hit TV drama “ALP: Thought Crimes Unit”. The last season, already thought by the viewers to have been the most disappointing so …
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John Cleese’s Fawlty Opinions
Just the other day, the elderly British comedy legend, John Cleese, tweeted – or, as some would say, decided to end his career – thus: Some years ago I opined …
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The Libs have a problem with the trendy vote too
It has been said for the past decade or two that the parliamentary Labour Party is finding it increasingly difficult to hold together the two major poles of its base: …
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Who’s Who at the EU Zoo
So the people of the European Union have voted – the 51 per cent of them, at least, which is a considerable reverse on the long term trend of a …
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The world to end; Millennials hardest hit
If Millennials strike many of their elders as rather feckless perpetual adolescents who live in the present and don’t think of the future, it might be because they actually think …
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Dems: Even distress is fake
Donald Trump’s election was a shock to many people. And it was a shock that continued to reverberate long after November 2016, with breathless media reports of mass despondency among …
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Not our government
It’s pretty much a hard political law that when the right loses an election they tend to blame themselves (“it was the infighting – the bloody moderates/conservatives [delete as appropriate] …
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Less than half crazy
The numbers in the low 40s pops up in two stories today: Americans today are more closely divided than they were earlier in the last century when asked whether some …
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The road to the Iron Throne is paved with good intentions
Judging by the social media response, the only people to appreciate tonight’s “Game of Thrones” series finale might be politics and history nerds like myself. Daenerys’s speech to her Dothraki cavalry …
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The autumn of our minor discontent: or 24 thoughts about the election
(Cover pic idea shamelessly stolen from Iowahawk, who captions it “Australian election summary”) 1. I was wrong about this election. I’m somewhat comforted by knowing that so was everyone else. …
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Bob was all our uncle
It is rather melancholy that Bob Hawke died only two days before most likely seeing his beloved Labor Party returning to power after six years in opposition. The consolation is …
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Monte Cassino, great-grandfather and a bear
On May 18, the day Australia goes to the polls, on the other side of the world we will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the bloodiest …
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Just like Lent, only compulsory
It’s good to live in societies where religion is a private matter, isn’t? Though as a substitute, a whole range of secular ideas about everything from gender to the environment …
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Depressing them softly
Over a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …
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White Knight Vs Black Knight: SJWs invade medieval Europe
Once in a while – actually, nowadays, on a daily basis – you read something that actually makes you dumber (hat tip: JK). This is one of these things: Each …
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My economic revelation
Unlike some people, I’ve never had a religious experience, that moment of staggering clarity when one seems to connect with a higher power or become as one with the universe. …
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Who’s afraid of big bad socialism?
Not “The New York Times”, which regularly keeps running pieces like this: Hart clearly hasn’t traveled much (he finds the fly-over country traumatic enough: “To be trapped in the boarding …
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