Polish Ripper
They always find ways to blame the migrant: Jack the Ripper who stalked London more than 130 years ago was a demon barber with a taste for human flesh, according …
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Climate strike? How about nuclear first strike?
Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction in the face of a climatic calamity that’s set to …
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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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Weimar without Nazis
Repeat after me: America today is not like Germany in the 1930s. The Republicans are not Nazis. Trump is not Hitler. To say, as so many otherwise seemingly intelligent and …
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Now do Hitler
If it was the Soviet Russia, everyone would have needed to swipe right in order to be left: It’s amazing what kind of behaviour hot people can get away with on …
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Welcome to communist anime porn
While we’re still waiting for a comic book about Lenin and Stalin as superheroes (the original Iron Man), the ChiComms produce some cartoon (in both senses of the word) history: …
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26 January is the least worst past for Indigenous Australians
There is no doubt that Stone Age hunter and gatherer societies, having ruled the roost for hundreds of thousands of years, have had a very lousy few centuries lately. Unfortunately, …
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What will be the classics of today?
Just the other day I was again browsing at Lifeline Bookfest, the twice-yearly largest charity book sale in the world, which takes place – of all places – in Brisbane, …
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A View from the High Castle
December 1942. The Imperial Japanese Army, having cleared the Allied resistance across Papua New Guinea, invades the Australian mainland. Japanese armies land in Darwin, Cairns and Townsville. There is a …
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Fr Rod Bower is how Jonestown started
Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Those who learn the wrong lessons from history are condemned to repeat their ignorance. Take Fr Rod Bower: Standing …
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20 Best Books I’ve Read in 2018
Happy New Year to The Daily Chrenk readers. If 2018 sucked for you, as it did for many people I know, keep marching on, onward and upward; if it was …
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The Genesis Event
A new, fascinating study suggests that all modern humans descend from an “Adam and Eve” couple who lived sometime between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago – but also that 90 …
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Low CO2 killed the megafauna star
As with the present day fauna and flora extinctions, humans have been traditionally blamed for the extinction events over the past several tens of thousands of years. Maybe not so …
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The nun who saved a Jewish hero
Last week, a 110-year old Dominican nun, Sister Cecilia Roszak, passed away in my home town of Krakow, in the same convent she first walked into almost 90 years before. …
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Happy 100th birthday Poland
My grandmother Irena passed away a few weeks ago, having recently, without much fanfare, turned 100. She was my grandfather’s second wife, after my mother’s mother passed away when my …
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This was my Poland
Make sure to check out this stunning collection of photographs: In the early 1980s, while Gdansk and Warsaw were in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval of great impact on …
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Dear Resistance, listen to my lived totalitarian experience – you have no effing idea what you’re talking about
In a world that the identity politics has wrought, lived experience is a trump (apologies for the use of a triggering word) card: your viewpoint or opinion on an issue …
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The end of The End Of History
Francis Fukuyama got famous, at least in the nerdy political circles, almost thirty years ago when he wrote an article for the neo-con magazine “The National Interest”, which he expanded …
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Generals of the damned
Over the past few days two public figures have received flak for acknowledging the military talents of historically incorrect generals. The first case was a typical fake news beat-up, the …
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