20 + 1 Best Books I’ve Read in 2021
This is the last time I’m ever doing New Year’s resolutions. My resolution for 2021 was to read less – not because I hate reading but to have more diverse …
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What if you staged a provocation and nobody came? A comedy in four acts
Hard lessons of January 6 have been learned and the September 18 rally at the US Capitol, ostensibly in the cause of those still held without charge for their Congressional …
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Reparate my ass
The other day I have been called a “toff”, “tax dodger”, “ass”, “whataboutery wanker”, “sociopath”, “revisionist”, “bigot”, “sordid”, “tendentious”, “arguer for wrong”, and a genocide apologist who deserves it happening …
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Tinfoil and trouble
The more I look at Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd these days, the more I think that ancient Greeks were right, at least for some: the afterlife is indeed a …
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Something is rotten in the state of Scotland, or Scottish Fish Fight
Blood will have blood. Macbeth 3.4 Most readers of this blog may not pay terribly much attention to the intrigues of Scottish politics, but what is currently unfolding in Holyrood …
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Dazed and confused by the media bull
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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Travel to America: even if you could, you shouldn’t
Two hundred years on, Australia is once again a prison island, except that this time it’s even hard to get in. For the outward travel, there is a general ban …
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Not Killing And Getting Killed For Dummies
I’m not an expert, but this seems commonsense to me in these increasingly fraught times: 1. If you own a firearm, be a responsible gun owner; learn how to handle …
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Why I Am a Racist*
* and so, most likely, are you** ** according to the new nomenclature I was born in another time and another place. It was a different world – the past …
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When Only Some #BlackLivesMatter
Black Lives Matter. To me certainly, a black life matters as much as my white life. However to say something like that, or that “All Lives Matter”, is now considered …
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President Trump’s decision to designate Antifa as a terrorist organisation is long overdue. Whether you call them a terrorist organisation or a criminal organisation – or both – the underlying facts are …
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5 ways the Corona crisis is conditioning us for authoritarianism
A word of clarification: I don’t believe that Coronavirus is some sort of One World Government plot to take over the planet by stealth and institute a permanent dictatorship. Nor …
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Congratulations, Victoria!
Victoria is officially the safest state in Australia if you’re looking to escape the firebugs: Victoria Police say the fires engulfing the eastern part of Victoria are not being treated as …
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Walkleys for nothing and the chicks for free
The piece I have put together the other day about the 200 or so people who have been arrested – and most charged – with setting a significant amount of …
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Australia’s arson crisis (updated)
According to my calculations and estimates, the number of individuals around Australia whose arson has contributed to the current bushfire crisis has now passed 200. This figure is not presented …
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Avocado cartels
Because it’s 2019 and the world has gone crazy: The cartel members showed up in this verdant stretch of western Mexico armed with automatic weapons and chainsaws. Soon they were …
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From socialism and terrorism to feces and urine
If you thought that the streets of San Francisco drowning in human excrement were bad enough and a disincentive to visit, you’ve seen – and smelled – nothing yet, as …
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Closing the gap
Because women can do anything: Europol has revealed the names of Europe’s most-wanted fugitives – and 18 of the 21 criminals on the list are women, warning they are “equally …
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Who will mind the childminders?
Mothers’ well organised crime erupts in Australia: NSW Police say as many as 100 childcare fraud syndicates are operating across Sydney, scamming taxpayers out of up to $750 million a …
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Arabs beat Jews in Poland, Poland gets the blame
An ugly incident in Warsaw: Several Israelis were brutally assaulted in Poland after the assailants asked where they were from, the brother of one of the victims alleged on Sunday. …
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