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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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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That time Poland was wearing a short skirt
The year wouldn’t go past without Vladimir Putin managing to again eschew any role in starting the Second World War and instead blaming Poland for getting invaded: Speaking at a …
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10 Reasons Why Santa Claus is a Communist
Bah-humbug! Sorry people to snow on your parade (or should it be “sorry snowflakes to rain on your parade”) but there is something you should know about the supposedly jolly …
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The Man in the High Kolkhoz
If you have Netflix (no chill necessary), there is a Polish series available, in fact the first Polish Netflix production ever, called “1983”. Yes, there is an element of play …
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China: Care about Uighurs? You must be a white supremacist
Somehow I have managed to miss this absolutely hottest take on the issue of persecution of China’s Muslim minority, from Lijian Zhao, a foreign ministry official: Zhao is talking about …
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From socialism and terrorism to feces and urine
If you thought that the streets of San Francisco drowning in human excrement were bad enough and a disincentive to visit, you’ve seen – and smelled – nothing yet, as …
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The left – always getting the walls wrong
Yesterday we remembered the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Everyone, including The Daily Chrenk, has been excited about it, and now Italy’s Democratic Party is joining …
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Where were you when the walls came crashing down
It was a Thursday. I couldn’t remember but just checked it, thanks to the magic of the Internet – something that certainly did not exist in its current omnipresent form …
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The Ys are a lost cause but with the Zs there is hope
Another year, another annual survey on American attitudes towards socialism, communism and collectivism, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. I blogged previously about the …
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China – not quite 70 for 70
People’s Republic of China is today celebrating 70 years of existence. On this day in 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the new state at the Tiananmen Square in …
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Before there was Trump, there was Joe McCarthy
I’ve been reading M Stanton Evans’s excellent and scholarly “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies” (published some 12 years ago) …
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Why the children’s crusades
Question asked: Does anyone else find it strange that the allegedly scientific "climate change" movement is being led by a 16-year-old girl and justifying its public policies on the homework …
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The Fourth Partition
It’s 2019, so over the next few years we will commemorate a number of 80th anniversaries connected with the Second World War. British people will be reminded of their darkest …
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In Liu of answers
I don’t know Gladys Liu from a bar of soap, so I have no idea whether she’s got any compromising relationship with the Chinese communist authorities and their numerous overseas …
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The two “what if”s of September 1939
Eighty years ago, Germany invaded Poland from the west, the north and the south, starting World War Two. Seventeen days later. the Soviet Union invaded from the east, completing the …
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Don’t ban the sickle, hammer the wearers
Should red stars, hammers-and-sickles and other communist symbols be banned by retailers? Lithuania thinks so: Lithuania has urged American online retailer Amazon to stop selling clothing featuring the hammer and …
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