A Brief History of the Near Future
Australia will go to a federal election sometime over the next twelve months. If asked last year, my gut would have inclined to an early election, say around August ’21, particularly …
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Space Farce and Woke Forces
The American military is increasingly facing future armed with the attitude “If we’re going to lose a major war, at least we’ll do it with the most diverse armed forces ever. …
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No right to return
Tragedy of the Middle East, or more precisely the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict, continues through yet another escalation of deadly violence, with hundreds of lives lost and more hatred added to …
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Official apology to Adelaide
I would like to take the opportunity this somewhat public forum provides and sincerely apologise to Adelaide and to thewhole state of South Australia. I have made fun of you many …
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They were for it before they were against it
Another anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe came and went with the now usual disgruntlement bubbling between Russia and all the other participants. This year …
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Why we need conservative counter culture
Children are the future. But what future will it be when the children of today are indoctrinated up to their eyeballs by the education system, the indoctrination only reinforced by …
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Prodigal blogger returns
Apologies for the longest online absence yet, inadvertently turning The Daily Chrenk into The Fortnightly Chrenk. I have spent the past two weeks both getting old as well as contemplating …
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Happy 1055th birthday Poland!
You might have had some rough times recently, but you don’t look a day older than a millennium. On the Holy Saturday, 14 April 966, Poland had officially entered the …
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Why everything is racist
You have no doubt noticed over the past few years – but accelerating wildly and widely in the last one or two – how everything now seems to problematic. The …
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The Man in the Low Castle
Nazism, and to a lesser extent communism, continue to fascinate many in the liberal English-speaking democracies. Looking at these totalitarian societies of the past, many have asked the question: “how …
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Hills are alive with the sound of white supremacy
The story of the present times is the never-ending race to out-idiot each other on the way to the bottom: The University of Oxford is considering scrapping sheet music for …
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Talking with the left about immigration
There is probably nothing more boring or self-indulgent than quoting one’s own Twitter exchanges with people of opposing views, but sometimes it does bring out some interesting points. So bear …
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On being transethnic
One of the circles to be yet squared by the transgender theory and practice is that if gender is, as we are told, a social construct, then being transgender means …
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From the University of the Obvious
Some academics make it very hard to argue against funding cuts to higher education. Take, for example, this groundbreaking research into the online dating apps: New research from William Chopik, …
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Weight of the world is killing us
While modern science and medicine offer us more opportunities to live longer and healthier lives, modern lifestyle – our diet (both quality and quantity), lack of exercise, stress and other …
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Proud to be a scumbag
Lunar New Year is as good a time as any to commend your friends and threaten your enemies, all in the spirit of festive good will no doubt. Wang Xining, …
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Tinfoil and trouble
The more I look at Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd these days, the more I think that ancient Greeks were right, at least for some: the afterlife is indeed a …
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Dazed and confused by the media bull
Over the years of travelling around the globe and speaking at all sort of forums, Swedish public health expert, the late Dr Hans Rosling, would conduct an informal experiment, asking …
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Dating while racist
We all have certain preferences about appearance, certain characteristics we find attractive in others. It might be the age, height, body shape, hair or eye colour, complexion, muscle tone, hair …
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When your whole country gets cancelled
As of this morning, Australian media outlets – as well as government agencies – are not able to post anything on Facebook, and their articles and stories cannot be shared …
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