A Pessimist Case for November
Twenty-twenty was going to be a great year. I think it was the cool number. Much cooler than 1919 or 1818. Ten-ten was just as good a number, but from …
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Dr Scherenkoss, I presume?
It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian journalist at ABC, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and I cut and pasted it because I’m very likely to …
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Tie me a kangaroo down
Firstly, a solution in search of a non-existent problem; not surprisingly a brain fart of the most immaterial Prime Ministership of Malcolm Turnbull: The Brand Advisory Council, set up two …
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Teaching young to hate their own
There is plenty of negativity to go around these days just about everywhere you look, but if you want to be particularly depressed today, I recommend this article from “The …
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America is bad for democracy, say allies
Dalia Research, the Alliance for Democracies and Rasmussen International have released the results of the Democracy Perception Index, the largest study of its kind, based on interviews with 124,000 people in …
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We shall fight in the streets
Make no mistake: the attacks, both physical and rhetorical, against the memory of Winston Churchill show that the mask of the agitators in the streets and across the social media …
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Why I Am a Racist*
* and so, most likely, are you** ** according to the new nomenclature I was born in another time and another place. It was a different world – the past …
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When Only Some #BlackLivesMatter
Black Lives Matter. To me certainly, a black life matters as much as my white life. However to say something like that, or that “All Lives Matter”, is now considered …
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End the Antifa terror now
President Trump’s decision to designate Antifa as a terrorist organisation is long overdue. Whether you call them a terrorist organisation or a criminal organisation – or both – the underlying facts are …
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