When Greta goes to Guangzhou, part 2
The shot (no pun intended): The chaser: Yeah, no, probably not these world leaders. P.S. This has been the shortest Daily Chrenk post ever, but pictures do tell a thousand …
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Disunited Kingdom
With both the mainstream and the social media full of jubilation or alternatively tears about the British general election results, let me sound a characteristic Daily Chrenk note of caution: …
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Feeling like we are doing something
An interesting exchange between a Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon (the working class) and a writer and journalist Jane Caro (the wokeing class) about the forest fires and climate change: Put …
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18 chihuahuas or 14 cavoodles
So we have the long expected reform of the federal public service in Australia. Sort of. There are fewer departments, but they are bigger. They will most likely still employ …
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ABC’s Secret Life of Us
ABC has recently released its new editorial guidance note on “Hate Speech, Terrorism and Mass Killing”. While the document is rich in comedic possibilities, one part of it in particular …
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China DGAF, the left oblivious
The wages of identity politics – “white man bad” and all that – is the obsessive focus on own society’s failings, the real, the exaggerated, the imaginary, while everyone else …
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The Man in the High Kolkhoz
If you have Netflix (no chill necessary), there is a Polish series available, in fact the first Polish Netflix production ever, called “1983”. Yes, there is an element of play …
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From Effect to Extinction: The great Climate Rhetoric Crisis
How old are you? I’m greenhouse old: I remember when it was all called the “greenhouse effect”, seemingly a lifetime ago. The first book I’ve read on the topic, still …
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