Election in the time of a pandemic
Today, the state of Queensland went to the polls to vote in local government elections and two state by-elections. It has been a rather unprecedented exercise of democracy at a …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XIV: The Quarantine Special
Let’s face it, with the viral doom and gloom seemingly inescapable, distractions are at a premium. Desperate times require desperate measures. Such as bringing this disreputable blog series back from …
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The Left’s hard-on for crisis
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”. This short and catchy dictum was articulated by Rahm Emanuel, former Clinton White House chief of staff and mayor of Chicago, at …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 5
With Coronavirus 24/7 and the world turned upside down indefinitely, wherever you are in self-isolation, make yourself some tea, sit down and enjoy the wisdom of the ages from different …
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I’m not saying it’s aliens…
Never mind a boring terrestrial virus – what would happen to our planet if aliens from other planet ever make an official appearance? Fox UK has commissioned a survey of …
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Love in time of Corona*
Giovanni Boccaccio had written “The Decameron” in the aftermath of the Black Death pandemic of 1348, which carried away somewhere around one third of the European population. The book is …
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Closed borders for me but not for thee
While the world is manically washing its hands and stocking up on toilet paper, as commerce, travel and even social interactions are slowly shrinking in response to what some see …
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The scandal that is Sanders
Imagine a credible candidate for a significant elected office – never mind the Presidency of the United States of America, the elected office in the world – who has spent …
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Public service is revolting and it’s not Priti
There is an undeclared war going on, waged by the left establishment in Great Britain on Priti Patel, the British-Indian Home Secretary under Boris Johnson. Ostensibly, the bureaucrats in her department …
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We need a globalisation insurance
What has the virus wrought? In some ways it is a perfect weapon: it doesn’t kill that many people in a greater scheme of things but it terrorises whole societies …
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One Day In The Life Of Arthur Stanislawovich: Diary of the Toilet Paper Apocalypse
7:40am – My news day starts with reading that last night at 10pm, a double truck carrying among other things toilet paper from a warehouse to the stores has somehow caught …
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The Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020 continues…
This afternoon, on the way back from the gym, I popped into my local Coles to get some fruit and veg. Having picked up everything I wanted, curiosity took me …
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The Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020
Around the world, the shop shelves are emptying fast. In Australia: Australian supermarkets are being completely stripped of essential items from people seemingly stockpiling products as fears surrounding the coronavirus outbreak …
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Melancholy News from Afghanistan
Not the end, but perhaps the beginning of the end: the United States and the Taliban sign a preliminary agreement in Doha, Qatar, on a conditional withdrawal of the last …
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