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Politics

The Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020

March 2, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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 asĀ fears surrounding the coronavirus outbreak …

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Politics

How everyone pays for Bernie

February 26, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In the magical socialist world of Bernie Sanders, everything is free – which means that someone else is paying for it. Usually it’s the billionaires or the rich or the …

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Politics

We’re fine but the world is going to hell

February 7, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

According to Gallup, Donald Trump has been Making America Happy – or Happier – Again. Well, of course they don’t frame the issue like that, but the results of their …

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Politics

Hate the rich or love the poor?

February 6, 2020February 6, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Interesting musings from the economist Maarten Boudry on the topic of inequality, in a post titled “Is extreme wealth a greater evil than extreme poverty?”: Imagine you could wave a …

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tourism
Politics

Media more destructive than fires

January 21, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Where the bloody hell are you? Not in Australia apparently. While no official figures are available yet, anecdotal evidence from international tour operators suggests significant cancellations (according to one report, …

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Politics

The Great Malaise continues

November 19, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

At PJ Media, my old friend Richard Fernandez muses about the current upheaval: Bloomberg editorsĀ have noticed that the world is on fire. There are demonstrations and unrest in Lebanon, Chile, …

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eattherich
Politics

Eat the Rich, Shit the Poor

November 8, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Socialism. Mathematics. Only one is a science. And never the twain shall meet. The old Soviet Union fan, Bernie Sanders, is raging all over social media about the billionaires. Other …

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Politics

Looking at the world through politically coloured glasses

October 25, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

There are facts but your perception of these facts differs depending on your values and beliefs. There is nothing new or startling about this observation, except the perception divide is …

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poland-poll
Politics

PiS pisses off progs as Poles go to the polls

October 14, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The 12 things to note about Sunday’s parliamentary election in Poland: 1. It’s status quo, with the populist/nationalist/conservative PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, or Law and Justice) government getting reelected. 2. …

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Politics

Implementing Greta

October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I have written before about the actual policy proposals supported by Greta Thunberg and the Global Climate Strike initiative, which they see as necessary in order to “save the planet”. …

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WTF

The mystery of Australian banknotes

October 2, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As we are completing more and more transactions with credit cards, online banking or payments, and increasingly apps, cash loses its place in our wallets and our lives. For young …

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Love / Politics

Think Feministically, Act Old-fashionally

September 8, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Equality – good in theory, doesn’t necessarily work for you in practice: Marriage rates have steadily declined over the past few decades, and now researchers from Cornell University are offering …

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monopoly
Politics

There is no Monopoly like a Socialist Monopoly

August 23, 2019August 23, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I confess I never really got into “Monopoly”. The game struck me as long and tedious and teaching the wrong messages about the economy. Or maybe it was just my …

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corporatewoke
Politics

Everyone wants power, no one wants accountability

August 20, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One of the lessons on why communism doesn’t work that I brought from my childhood is that when something belongs to everyone it belongs to no one (and people will …

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Politics

China – a friend or a fowl?

August 8, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, an ex-soldier who currently happens to be the chair of the parliamentary intelligence committee, has created a bit of a stir when he compared the rise …

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mine
Lifestyle / Politics / Travel

Why everyone should visit a mine

August 6, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

If I were a state education minister I would endeavour to make it a compulsory part of a high school curriculum for students to have at least one field excursion …

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Politics

Of shitholes – foreign and our own

July 30, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Donald Trump doesn’t mince words – in fact they’re usually like a very rare steak with blood still dripping as you slice through. Some months ago, “the controversy of the …

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Politics

The Weakly Chrenk

July 25, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Perhaps it has been a mistake to call one’s new website The Daily Chrenk, implying that a one-person blog (an increasing rarity these days) can provide enough quality – or …

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lomborg
Politics

If I could have everyone read just one thing about climate change policy…

July 21, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

…this could be it. None of the contents are new or original, but in this longer-than-an-average-op-ed, Bjorn Lomborg distills all the elements of the argument he has been making for …

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ikea
Politics

From Israel to Poland, the folaut continues

June 28, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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