The tenth anniversary of 9/11 has been marked by a fresh outbreak in Britain of the political equivalent of auto-immune disease: treating the mortal enemies of the west as the victims of the west, while treating the west’s defenders as its mortal enemies.
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Just published in The New York Review of Books a major article by J.M. Coetzee on poet and Quadrant Literary Editor Les Murray.
It has been a decade since 3,000 Americans were murdered on September 11, 2001. Much of what followed in the subsequent ten years was unexpected, while what was expected did not happen.
To criticize the Chief Justice of the High Court looks like blaming the referee for a lost football game, it makes you look a bad loser and changes absolutely nothing in the result.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign is not a grass roots movement populated by rednecks, the mob or the rabble from the streets. It is a political campaign that sprang from intellectuals and academics from the Left.
Department of Immigration - overpaid social workers. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - humiliated. Department of Defence - fed up. Department of Customs and Border Protection - a glorified taxi service. Department of Homeland Security - irrelevant.
The Prime Minister overstepped the line when she called the chairman and CEO of News Limited, John Hartigan … And I ask her: What are you so afraid of? What else would you stoop to in order to cling to power?
Obama ought to be unelectable given the last two and a half years. But he has a natural constituency on the left and amongst the welfare-recipient class, a class that is of formidable size and growing.
With Julia Gillard fully supporting Craig Thomson, and presumably the gang from Victoria, this might be a good time to ask her about Labor’s “core values”.
As the Thomson scandal only begins unravelling it’s time to look back at the Profumo Affair. Then it was the cover-up that bought the government tumbling.
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