Election in the time of a pandemic
Today, the state of Queensland went to the polls to vote in local government elections and two state by-elections. It has been a rather unprecedented exercise of democracy at a …
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The Left’s hard-on for crisis
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”. This short and catchy dictum was articulated by Rahm Emanuel, former Clinton White House chief of staff and mayor of Chicago, at …
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Public service is revolting and it’s not Priti
There is an undeclared war going on, waged by the left establishment in Great Britain on Priti Patel, the British-Indian Home Secretary under Boris Johnson. Ostensibly, the bureaucrats in her department …
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How everyone pays for Bernie
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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18 chihuahuas or 14 cavoodles
So we have the long expected reform of the federal public service in Australia. Sort of. There are fewer departments, but they are bigger. They will most likely still employ …
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The Great Malaise continues
At PJ Media, my old friend Richard Fernandez muses about the current upheaval: Bloomberg editors have noticed that the world is on fire. There are demonstrations and unrest in Lebanon, Chile, …
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The Deep State and the Shallow State
As one of my friends is fond of saying, one man’s perversion is another man’s great night (and woman’s, one might add). The same can be said about politics – …
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Eat the Rich, Shit the Poor
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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I’m from the Deep State and I’m here to help
It’s 2019, so it’s perhaps time to update Ronald Reagan’s famous dictum that “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to …
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PiS pisses off progs as Poles go to the polls
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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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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