
Polarisation takes us back to the 19th century
We seem to be on the cusp of another age of sharp tribalisation, where people of different beliefs and persuasions increasingly lead different lives and share different spaces, passing each …
Read MoreWe seem to be on the cusp of another age of sharp tribalisation, where people of different beliefs and persuasions increasingly lead different lives and share different spaces, passing each …
Read MoreA friend of mine on Facebook has indirectly turned my attention to this Medium piece from a few years back, which summarises the results of a not very scientific but …
Read MoreThis morning we’ve had the latest installment of Girls Gone Wild, so for the sake of equality of the (two) sexes I cannot but now present some eye candy for …
Read MoreYou have all been very good regular readers of TDC recently, absorbing a lot of outrage, ridicule and cynicism emanating from these pages under the guise of impassioned political and …
Read MoreThis guy will be very happy today: So will Julie Bishop. With a big emphasis on disability and 50 skin shades of same or different sex multiracial couples holding hands, …
Read MoreI honestly don’t know how these things become news stories, even for the tabloids: A student who’s been on 40 “atrocious” dates in nine months has created a brilliant Tinder …
Read MoreYesterday, a story caught my eye, which proved that people nowadays are so lazy, they will outsource just about anything to others – including their Tinder experience: Holly Bartter has …
Read MoreAs I said yesterday, here at The Daily Chrenk we are the equal opportunity mockers and judgers. It has been a while between the drinks – a year and a …
Read MoreOK, OK, OK… This is a serious politics, culture and news blog; all killer no filler; no clickbait, listicles or celebrity gossip. On the other hand, those of you who …
Read MoreIn case Donald Trump needs more of an agenda post-midterms, here’s a helpful suggestion from Glenn Reynolds: I’ve just finished reading Columbia Law professor Tim Wu’s new book on antitrust, …
Read MoreI’m old enough to remember when the Silicon Valley was thought of as vaguely libertarian. Good times. If true, they certainly didn’t last: Facebook Inc. executive and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey was …
Read MoreIt would help greatly if more people conceptualised the relations between China and the Western world as a kind of a cold war. Of course, God forbid that it …
Read MoreGender and sexuality being fluid, and increasingly colour and ethnicity too, why not age? When you abandon any objective standards – because they reflect the power structures in the society …
Read MorePolitics ruins everything, part 578. As if there weren’t enough fake profiles on dating apps, whether bots trying to entice the unwary to other sites or sad individuals trying to …
Read MoreThere is plenty of disturbing stuff going on in the world – like a Saudi journalist walking into a Saudi consulate and being dismembered and carried out in pieces – …
Read MoreSure, they are private businesses and so they can do whatever they want with their users, but at least in the past they used to be less blatant and arbitrary about …
Read MoreWell, not really. If I did, it would have made for a fascinating blog post, and I, no doubt, would have had a more enthralling online conversation than many one …
Read MoreTired of being constantly dumped by your dates after they discover you are an ugly right-winger? Looking for a soulmate you can build a wall and drain a swamp with? …
Read MoreJulian Assange is, next to Rupert Murdoch, the most controversial Australian alive. Love him as the shaker and stirrer and speaker of truth to power or hate him as a …
Read MoreJust as I am sceptical of the social claims of tech boosters, I prefer to take my breathless futurism with a grain of salt. Yes, new technology can be disruptive, …
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