Of shitholes – foreign and our own
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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The Weakly Chrenk
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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Top 10 Sexiest Nations – and their sexiest politicians
The question has now been settled – by a completely unscientific opinion poll, but nevertheless… The people of Ukraine have been named as the sexiest in the world, according to …
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The Woke versus the Poor
My favourite American urbanist and demographer, Joel Kotkin, writes how the quest for social justice so often harms the poor: Perhaps no issue more motivates progressive activists than social justice. Good …
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Socialists see the light
Well, a few of them. “The Guardian” reports on Mette Frederiksen, the 41-year old leader of the opposition Social Democrats in Denmark: A victory for Frederiksen would be a boon …
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Who’s Who at the EU Zoo
So the people of the European Union have voted – the 51 per cent of them, at least, which is a considerable reverse on the long term trend of a …
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Not our government
It’s pretty much a hard political law that when the right loses an election they tend to blame themselves (“it was the infighting – the bloody moderates/conservatives [delete as appropriate] …
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The autumn of our minor discontent: or 24 thoughts about the election
(Cover pic idea shamelessly stolen from Iowahawk, who captions it “Australian election summary”) 1. I was wrong about this election. I’m somewhat comforted by knowing that so was everyone else. …
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Bob was all our uncle
It is rather melancholy that Bob Hawke died only two days before most likely seeing his beloved Labor Party returning to power after six years in opposition. The consolation is …
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The Twice Lucky Country
The other day I was having a coffee with an old friend, and we pondered, among many other, usually more cheerful topics, about the state of politics today. “Isn’t it …
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The price to pay for slavery
In a further sign of the Democratic Party’s drift to the left, two presidential contenders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, have now expressed support for a policy that until now …
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$22,000,000,000,000 and (no one’s) counting
No one gives a shit anymore; after all, what’s another trillion between bipartisan friends? The national debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a milestone that experts …
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Getting free money makes people happy
Hot on the heels of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal, which includes a call for “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work” (or included, since AOC is now …
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Green Deal, Gone Girl
Ben Shapiro twitted yesterday that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic foil.” Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was created by Trump in …
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Brexit? Brentry back into the world will be even harder
Hillary Brit is The Daily Chrenk’s European correspondent. Brexit. What a word. Half noun, half verb. The word inflicts grammatical torture on my ears every time I hear it. But …
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Can porn tax help build the Wall?
Put this is the “possibly good idea but it will never happen” file: Here’s a genius idea from the state of Arizona for how to end our nation’s border standoff and …
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Cossie is not the messiah
With Kelly O’Dwyer pulling the pin on her federal parliamentary career and vacating the previously ultra-safe but now probably not-so-much seat of Higgins, people are popping up in the media …
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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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Let them eat carbon
I’m glad that I got the chance to walk down Avenue des Champs-Elysees from Arc de Triomphe towards Louvre when doing so did not mean getting gassed by the police …
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The Incumbent Preservation Society
The leaders on the way out (I was going to write “outgoing” but it would have been confusing because in one sense they are not) like to leave these sorts …
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