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Polls say Americans long for a Trump return
Polling puts Donald Trump as the preferred President in a race against Joe Biden, despite Trump being the victim of…
Human shields to useful corpses?
‘I read the news today…oh boy,’ John Lennon’s lyrics begin (A Day in the Life). The news said: ‘The Ministry…
Anti-family Albo?
The Prime Minister has shown his true colours, again… As reported in The Australian, Anthony Albanese agrees with an economist…
Gaza conflict could derail Biden
How are American voters making sense of Israel’s war against Hamas and what should they know about the Jewish State’s…
The day the delusions died
Konstantin Kisin continues to seriously impress. At last week’s ARC conference in London, Kisin gave one of the most powerful…
Looking for the Net Zero exit sign
Let’s get serious about planning an orderly exit from Net Zero. We need a plan ready to go before a…
Companions-in-arms
Last Friday night, the ‘specials’ on the menu at Burwood’s RSL sold out fast. Not just because they were great…
Truth and Pronouns in the Australian Judicial System
The task of the common law system is not the pursuit of truth, but the arbitration of the adversarial disputation…
Demography is destiny
That the West is in decline is hardly news. Plummeting educational attainment decreases in life expectancy, and strains in the social fabric are just a few…
Islamic Republic of Iran and Hamas
As the Islamic Republic of Iran and its terror networks cause death and destruction in Israel and Gaza and threaten…
The Paris crowd
Last month, the Paris-based OECD published its latest assessment of the Australian economy. Nobody read it other than those people paid to…
Aren’t you fed up with the ABC?
I don’t know whether you can still get liquorice allsorts, but they used to be popular with children, if not…
Just Stop Oil: the locusts of politics
Swarms of attention-seeking activists with nothing to contribute to the world except grandstanding, vandalism, and inconvenience are back to their…
Only conservative values can save us
In the endless cycle of the Social Media doom scroll, I came across a meme not too long ago that…
Victorian Parliament at its worst
Since the recent Referendum, many commentators have referred to the state of play in the Victorian negotiations between the state…
Gentle parents, ruthless children
As someone perpetually infuriated by the general public, I’m not quite sure why I enjoy train travel so much. Taking…
Western decline is not inevitable: ARC tells a ‘better story’
The inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship forum held in London this week repudiated the direction our politicians are leading us.…
Victoria’s bonkers 30cm grass height rule to be ‘revised’
You can always count on the former Republic of Danistan to come up with a deranged idea. Last week, they…
Killing koalas to save wind farms?
‘Protecting koalas’ has been the favourite mantra invoked by Green groups and local councils to prevent basic services being built.…
ARC: to boldly say what the elites dare not
An audience of movers and shakers from around the world roared with laughter in London this week during a talk…
Catch 22 powers on
Recently I wrote an article titled Hello Darkness My Old Friend, which started out describing a romantic candle-lit dinner with…
The high cost of shoehorning Biden into the Presidency
Shoehorning? I’m sure you know what I mean. It is this: I do not believe that Biden’s basement-delivered campaign in…
Israel, censorship, and the ten percent
One of the side effects of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in various Western countries, including Australia, has been…
Sub-optimal desalination for sub-tropical Queensland?
The present Queensland government’s Water Security Plan includes doubling the present capacity of the existing desalination plant at Tugun, and…
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