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Dazed and confused by the media bull

February 24, 2021 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Over the years of travelling around the globe and speaking at all sort of forums, Swedish public health expert, the late Dr Hans Rosling, would conduct an informal experiment, asking …

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Eight trends to watch in 2021

January 2, 2021 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Twenty-twenty, the year of the “cool number” previously associated with the positive (perfect vision), had been anything but cool and positive itself. A lot had gone wrong; most related to the …

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Peace on Earth

December 27, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One of the few bright spots of genuine good news this year – if not the only one – has been the sudden outbreak of peace between Israel and several …

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America’s mythical allies – and the real ones

November 24, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Sam Vinograd, an Obama administration nat sec alumnus – and now, needless to say, a CNN nat sec analyst – is hearing sounds: It's like I can almost hear our …

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Once, twice, three times a nominee

September 29, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Over the past few weeks, Donald Trump has been nominated twice for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize: the first time, by a Norwegian “far right” politician, for his role in bringing …

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Good News From 2020

July 31, 2020August 3, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Twenty-twenty. What a year. As someone has recently remarked on Twitter, I can’t believe we stayed until midnight and cheered for it when it arrived. In the past, 2020 has had …

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D10

July 20, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

[Apologies for very sporadic blogging recently, but I have been playing a host to a pandemic refugee] God knows there has not been much good news of any sort in …

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Tie me a kangaroo down

June 23, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Firstly, a solution in search of a non-existent problem; not surprisingly a brain fart of the most immaterial Prime Ministership of Malcolm Turnbull: The Brand Advisory Council, set up two …

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America is bad for democracy, say allies

June 16, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Dalia Research, the Alliance for Democracies and Rasmussen International have released the results of the Democracy Perception Index, the largest study of its kind, based on interviews with 124,000 people in …

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Losing My Region – Australians and the world cool on China

May 14, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Welcome to the political chaos theory – or, should we say, fact: a bat flapping its wings in China produces a hurricane… pretty much everywhere around the world. It seems …

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Fact Check: “Disease ambassadors”?

April 20, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The worldwide Coronavirus pandemic is predictably generating hundreds of conspiracy theories, rumours, claims and counter-claims about every aspect of the crisis, from the virus’s origin to the actions, or inactions, …

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COVID killed the radio star: the winners and the losers of the viralmageddon

April 19, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Joel Kotkin, a sensible urbanist (rare, I know), has been sounding an alarm about the hollowing out of our economy and our society for a while now. His news book, The …

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The world after Corona

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As the current pandemic crisis continues to unfold across the globe, more and more important people are heard making pronouncements that our world and our lives will not be the …

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We need a globalisation insurance

March 6, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

What has the virus wrought? In some ways it is a perfect weapon: it doesn’t kill that many people in a greater scheme of things but it terrorises whole societies …

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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 as fears surrounding the coronavirus outbreak …

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Don’t mention the pandemic

February 13, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The Woke Health Organisation – sorry, the World Health Organisation – continues to provide non-stop entertainment since the start of the Coronavirus outbreak. I don’t know if laughter is the …

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Good News from the Atmosphere

February 12, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It is somewhat ironic – though in some ways unsurprising – that at the time when the climate change activism (or, rather, according to the new guidelines, climate crisis or …

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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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Those That Trust Trump, or Who Hearts America?

January 14, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A fascinating update, courtesy of Pew Research Center, on attitudes towards the United States around the world, best summarised in this table: It’s personally interesting to note that Poland is the …

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Russia and China after your internet

December 30, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Nothing good ever comes of when these two take interest in something: The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, …

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