If it’s up to our health experts – doctors, scientists and researchers, administrators and bureaucrats – we will never return to the “old normal”. If it’s up to our health …
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Hello August. Of 2021; that disappointing sequel to 2020. Or perhaps we’re actually in the 20th month of 2020 – Augustember. Whatever’s the case, there’s no longer any talk in …
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In a year full of sad graphs, most of them one way or another connected with COVID, I came across this one the other day: COVID, whatever its origin turns …
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Is your fish demeaning to others? Worry not, there is always a bureaucracy ready to step in and right the wrong: The Asian carp is getting a new name from …
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Someone had quipped recently that if migrants voted strongly Republican, the Wall would have been funded by Congress in an hour and just to be sure the Democrats would have …
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As Taliban prepare to yet again, a quarter of a century later, take over Afghanistan, an olive branch is extended to China. China is a “friend,” says Taliban spokesman in Qatar, Suhail …
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Not all teachers – for there are many good and decent ones – but the profession, and certainly its upper echelon, is fast becoming a societal poison: The president of …
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Life expectancy in China being close to 77 years by now, at 100 the Chinese Communist Party is long overdue for demise. That this happens speedily and as peacefully as …
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Dark humour is like food, Stalin once said, not everyone gets it. Well, he didn’t actually say it – it was just a meme. The real Stalin wasn’t a funny …
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When I was seven years old I dreamed of one day owning a bookshop. When I was seven years old I also thought that somebody in their mid-40s was very old; …
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The other day, Alexandria “She Guevara” Ocasio Cortez took to Twitter to complain how her “abuela” (grandma) in Puerto Rico is still living in deplorable conditions, four years after Hurricane …
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The other day I have been called a “toff”, “tax dodger”, “ass”, “whataboutery wanker”, “sociopath”, “revisionist”, “bigot”, “sordid”, “tendentious”, “arguer for wrong”, and a genocide apologist who deserves it happening …
Read More 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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