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The Common Cause of China and Islam
In The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (1923) the philosopher of law Carl Schmitt famously asked:
Does the British Empire rest on universal suffrage and equal voting rights for all of its inhabitants? It could not survive for a week on this foundation; with their terrible majority the coloureds would dominate the whites … The same applies to France and the other powers.
The British Empire may not have rested on universal suffrage when Schmitt was writing, but, curiously enough, it does today. Now that the empire no longer exists, every one of the billions of foreigners whose ancestors inhabited this long-defunct entity has been granted voting rights in the former motherland. Taking advantage of this post-imperial droit de seigneur, and of Britain’s 1948 decision to bestow settlement rights on all the colonial peoples, millions of them have moved there, where, “with their terrible majority” in London and other big cities, they do indeed often “dominate the whites”.
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
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6 mins
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23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
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2 mins