Free Tibet (Labour)
Whatever happened to “Free Tibet”? With its heyday probably twenty years ago, it used to be a major cause celebre for artists and activists, with bumper stickers adorning countless cars, including – …
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No shots, thanks, we’re Americans
“I would advise you not to take the Russian or the Chinese vaccines,” my GP told me the other day, “I suspect there might have been some shortcuts taken in both …
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Unholy wood: how to deal with catastrophic wildfires
First Australia, in the first months of the year, now the western parts of the United States. Australian wildfires ravaged the forested area equal in size to the state of …
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China does as China is
Call this the Commiebridge Analytica: Tens of thousands of Australians — including celebrities, politicians and journalists — have had their data collected by a company with links to Chinese military …
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Killing them not so softly
The left eventually poisons everything it touches. It might take a while until their presence in a particular field reaches the critical mass sufficient to affect the trajectory but they will …
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The Mystery of African COVID
“New York Post” sets up the mystery: The novel coronavirus has infected more than 26.35 million people, with just four countries accounting for over 15 million cases. They are America, Brazil, …
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Celebrity strikes? Yes please!
Twenty-twenty is providing a much needed reminder of the absolute importance of essential workers and first responders. In times like these, it’s quite courageous for celebrities of all kinds to keep …
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Not Killing And Getting Killed For Dummies
I’m not an expert, but this seems commonsense to me in these increasingly fraught times: 1. If you own a firearm, be a responsible gun owner; learn how to handle …
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160 years on, Democrats still think they own blacks
Cheap shot? Sorry, I usually prefer expensive ones too, but that’s all I have tonight with #UncleToms trending on Twitter and Jake Tapper complaining on CNN that the first night …
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Trump’s agenda – a little bit nationalistic, a little bit fantastic
Donald Trump has released the agenda for his second term: A few random thoughts in response: 1) The biggest missing piece – as it has been from Trump’s agenda over …
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The most important thing you will read this year
As somebody who has experienced “not the real socialism”(TM) for the first fifteen years of my life, I seriously never expected that a few decades on I would have to …
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Hammered and sickled
Be careful what you put on your office walls – or at least where you take your photographs: A small icon associated with communism on the wall of an ACT …
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Wired left, right and centre
An interesting neurological study indicates that partisans and non-partisans – or perhaps the ideological and non-ideological folk – are two different species. OK, not quite, but they do think differently: …
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When Poland saved Europe
A hundred years ago this week, a series of biggest battles that Europe were to witness between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the beginning of …
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Llamageddon for Coronavirus?
Llamas are known as cute but highly temperamental – they spit, up to 10 feet – but now one South American expat in the UK called Fifi might be the …
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Good News From 2020
Twenty-twenty. What a year. As someone has recently remarked on Twitter, I can’t believe we stayed until midnight and cheered for it when it arrived. In the past, 2020 has had …
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7 Rules for Migrants
Many of us move throughout our lives, some frequently. Sometimes we don’t have much choice about the timing or the destination, but in a great majority of cases we choose …
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The Great Unrepayable
The perfect storm of more than a decade of fiscal mismanagement and a “once-in-a-century shock” (Treasurer Josh Frydenberg) – God helps if there is ever a real shock like a …
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A Streetcar Named Freedom
It’s always fun watching some red on red violence (no metaphor here – as we have now been repeatedly told, words are violence too), and the latest outbreak is particularly …
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