The passing world of 1 September
Today is the 79th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, and as I was pondering on that date, I realised that with one exception, there is no …
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7 reasons why Australia is a better friend to the US than Canada
Earlier today Donald Trump sent a congratulatory tweet to Australia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Congratulations to new Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. There are no greater friends than the …
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Crisis of masculinity, now in its 150,489th year
“The Guardian” publishes something called The Week in Patriarchy, “a weekly roundup of what’s happening in the world of feminism and sexism” complied in the current week by Arwa Mahdawi. The …
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Ramsey Bolton becomes a Polish pilot
For the sake of the movie I hope that Iwan Rheon who played the arch-bastard (literally and metaphorically) Ramsey Bolton in “Game of Thrones” is good enough actor to go …
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Satan skips Victoria, goes to Arkansas
A little coastal town in Victoria manages to escape with all its residents and guests unharmed: A festival in a small coastal town in Victoria sparked rumours that a bizarre …
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Serfing holidays
Would you rather be a medieval European peasant or a modern American worker? Well, it depends on how much you value your free time: Life for the medieval peasant was …
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When ICE came for Anne Frank
The denigration of the memory of the Holocaust continues, courtesy of people who either don’t know history and are therefore stupid or purposefully misinterpret it and are therefore malicious: A …
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New Roman library to open in Cologne
A nice archaeological discovery in the heart of the beautiful Cologne: The remains of the oldest public library in Germany, a building erected almost two millennia ago that may have housed …
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The myth of political civility
The two statements below are equally true: 1. The Left’s Trump Derangement Syndrome, from screaming at the sky to the now routine comparisons with Nazi Germany, seems particularly hysterical and …
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The Kim and Don Show
As the Good Book says, by their fruits ye shall know them. Summits mean nothing, their consequences everything. We should resist the impulse of many of Trump’s supporters to instantaneously …
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Shooting epidemics and other deadly memes
Another day, another school shooting in the US – though contrary to CNN, it wasn’t the 23rd this year, unless you count, as CNN does, events like robbery attempts outside …
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