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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Putin’s Inglorious War of Terror
Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Russia! Together forever!” Well, this is getting a little embarrassing. There was President Putin, in the gaudy Grand Kremlin Palace on September 30, announcing the annexation of the four Ukrainian regions. Meanwhile, somewhere not so far away, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU) were encircling Lyman, gateway to Putin’s self-styled Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). At the same time, the ZSU were planning the liberation of Kherson city, capital of Kherson Oblast. After it was taken by the Ukrainian army on November 11, a triumphant Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise visit to the re-captured town to declare “the beginning of the end of the war”. Given almost 20 per cent of pre-2014 Ukrainian territory remained in the hands of the Russians, he may have been getting ahead of himself. But maybe not.
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Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
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