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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Livin’ in a left-wing psychodrama
I have a good news and a bad news. The good news is that we have managed to survive four years of the left fantasising and cosplaying “the Resistance” against …
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No Cubans and dogs allowed
Someone had quipped recently that if migrants voted strongly Republican, the Wall would have been funded by Congress in an hour and just to be sure the Democrats would have …
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A Brief History of the Near Future
Australia will go to a federal election sometime over the next twelve months. If asked last year, my gut would have inclined to an early election, say around August ’21, particularly …
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Why we need conservative counter culture
Children are the future. But what future will it be when the children of today are indoctrinated up to their eyeballs by the education system, the indoctrination only reinforced by …
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The Man in the Low Castle
Nazism, and to a lesser extent communism, continue to fascinate many in the liberal English-speaking democracies. Looking at these totalitarian societies of the past, many have asked the question: “how …
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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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When making Nazi analogies is not Reich
“Cancel culture doesn’t exist”, exhibit 56,823: Gina Carano will not be returning to The Mandalorian or the Star Wars galaxy after sharing a post on social media implying that being a Republican today is …
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The year of living outrageously
Americans are more stressed now than at any time since April, or the early days of the COVID pandemic last year. This is the conclusion of an opinion poll recently …
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There’s no party like the third party
To the two life certainties of death and taxes (in that and in the reverse order), add this: over the next two years at the very least, the conservative/right-of-centre side …
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Just like the Reichstag fire, only crunchy
There is a saying in counter-terrorism that the good guys need to get it right 100 per cent, but the baddies only need to get lucky 1 per cent of …
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Another “mostly peaceful” day in the US of A
As Talleyrand famously said after Napoleon’s international kidnap and subsequent execution of the royalist Duc d’Enghein, “it was worse than a crime, it was a mistake.” The unknown number (from …
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Eight trends to watch in 2021
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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Honey, I swapped the party bases
Once upon a time, centre-left wing parties were the parties of working class and the poor, while centre-right parties were the parties of the wealthy, middle class and the educated. …
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Science is settled: Republicans are fascists
As CNN’s Christiane Amanpour again compares Trump to Hitler on the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, a new a piece of research is being touted by major media outlets: “US Republicans …
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Where to for the Republican Party?
Donald Trump had turned out the record number of supporters ever for a sitting president. Joe Biden had turned out an even greater record number of supporters ever for a …
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Rupert ditches Donald
The love affair between Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump is well and truly over. Trump has been repeatedly complaining about the Fox coverage of his presidency for a year or …
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2000 – a few early take-aways
1. Democrats, buoyed by the media and the public research industry support chorus, were expecting a Blue Wave. A lot of Republicans, buoyed by the enthusiasm of the base as …
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Against the Great Satan
Back in 1996, I and three friends had the privilege (having handsomely won the election) of editing the University of Queensland student newspaper “Semper Floreat”. The Latin name means “always …
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