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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Dating while racist
We all have certain preferences about appearance, certain characteristics we find attractive in others. It might be the age, height, body shape, hair or eye colour, complexion, muscle tone, hair …
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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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Joseph Biden: the case for sainthood
When the much loved and admired Pope John Paul II passed away after a long battle with illness, crowds gathered outside St Peter’s basilica in the Vatican City started spontaneously …
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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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25 Best Books I’ve Read in 2020
As always with these annual roundups, please note that these are the best books I’ve read last year, not the best book published last year, as I never buy new …
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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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Is there a Doctor in the house? Plenty
The perennial “to Doctor or not to Doctor” debate about credentials and titles is with us again, this time thanks to a “Wall Street Journal” op-ed arguing that the incoming …
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Gone In 60 Weeks
Joe Biden is not meant to govern. If he manages, and whatever he manages, that’s all well and good, and a bonus but that is not his purpose. His mission …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Person of the Year: You, You Poor Fucker
The venerable (yes, I’m joking) “Time” magazine has just named their Person of the Year: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are TIME's 2020 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY https://t.co/o97QNlSBrl pic.twitter.com/KuoBoebBN4 …
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Did it have information that could lead to Hillary Clinton’s arrest? UPDATED
The mysterious Utah monolith is gone, according to the authorities (it was situated on public land): When I initially came across the preview of the above story, my first reaction …
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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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Team Biden: managing America’s decline and the rise of China
Meet the new boss in the White House – same as the old (but one) boss – and China, through one of its English-language mouthpieces, “Global Times”, is hoping for a reset back …
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Trump was a goose, but he laid golden eggs
For the first time ever, the Dow Jones index has passed 30,000 the other day. It came close to doing so back in February, peaking at 29,500. Then COVID happened …
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America’s mythical allies – and the real ones
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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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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