How is your maintenance hole?
Another triumph of human progress from the city that has been a pioneer for so long: A US city has voted to ban a list of common words like “manhole” …
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From Israel to Poland, the folaut continues
The Israel Folau case is big because Israel Folau is big – literally, but more importantly metaphorically speaking. Folau, however, is just a tip of an iceberg if that analogy …
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Polarisation takes us back to the 19th century
We seem to be on the cusp of another age of sharp tribalisation, where people of different beliefs and persuasions increasingly lead different lives and share different spaces, passing each …
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Where are the songs of freedom?
A discussion at PJ Media and then Instapundit, about music and the end of the Cold War, which we should be celebrating throughout this year, but we won’t be very …
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Immigration as reparations
Of the people who can broadly speaking be described as being on the right, libertarians are the ones who are passionately in favour of (more) immigration, believing that any problems …
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The Libs have a problem with the trendy vote too
It has been said for the past decade or two that the parliamentary Labour Party is finding it increasingly difficult to hold together the two major poles of its base: …
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Depressing them softly
Over a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …
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White Knight Vs Black Knight: SJWs invade medieval Europe
Once in a while – actually, nowadays, on a daily basis – you read something that actually makes you dumber (hat tip: JK). This is one of these things: Each …
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Everything I don’t like is far-right
It was not Orwell’s original idea that those who control the language control the society and determine its nature. In any case, the left hardly ever needed inspiration from critics …
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Barbarians inside the gates
It’s hardly a recent phenomenon that those tasked with curating, protecting and building on the rich heritage of our civilisation often would love nothing better than to see the past …
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Westeros So White
The old leftie George R R Martin discovers that you can never be woke enough. Because the world of the Chronicles of Fire and Ice can hardly be criticised for …
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Saying sorry to the Aztecs
Mexico’s new socialist president, having solved all the economic and social issues that plague his semi-failed narcostate, is now in the business of re-litigating the past: Spain’s government has refused a …
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Sully versus Hollywood
Act 1 The scene: “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation is a new annual event that aims to connect writers and content creators with activists, non-profits and thinkers with ties to …
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Gals Against Humanity
As part of the usual spray directed at the conservative half of Australia, “refugee, racial justice, Palestine campaigner” Sarah Saleh observes about Tony Abbott His existence altogether is offensive. “There is a …
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Never let a crisis go to waste
One of the consequences of the terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques will be an reinvigorated effort by the left to silence and censor speech and debate on topics they consider …
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The 24 hour media rule
The mainstream media – and the social media – are so good at generating instant outrages that I now have an informal rule: try not to comment on any new …
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No meat and two veg
As the social mediaverse keeps discussing pros and cons of Gillette’s new ad, here comes PETA with the creepiest possible collection of men proudly waving their genitalia around in public …
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Baby It’s Woke Inside
In this week’s chronicles of outrage and offence: “Radio stations around the U.S. and Canada have dropped the 1944 Christmas tune from their lineups over lyrics including, ‘I ought to …
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Three reasons the Liberal Party is heading for the slaughter
Try as I might I can’t imagine any possible, even unlikely, scenario where the Coalition government in Canberra manages to get returned in the widely expected May 2019 general election. To …
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Caution: gay people crossing
First we’ve had skirts put on pedestrian crossing lights’ little people, because apparently, unlike children, some adults think that stick figures represent men only and not all human beings (until …
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