Politics
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Perhaps better than any other Greens politician, Mehreen Farqi unites the qualities of gormlessness and verbosity. Bear this in mind because not a word of what she had to say on Insiders ought to surprise in the least. Nor for that matter the tepid and pathetic reaction of the Prime Minister, who one can only suspect is reluctant to say a harsh word about the Greens as the prospect of a minority government looms larger
July 11, 2024
6 mins
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Having lived under both Stalin and Hitler he knew first-hand that those dictators had more in common than their claimed differences. It was no less than his duty to rouse a flabby population to appreciate and defend their freedom. In this regard Frank had signifcant and enduring impact on a generation
June 28, 2024
9 mins
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One key plank of today’s anti-nationalist agitators’ logic is the airy assertion that the nation-state is an artificial and arbitrary construct. Thus do internationalists speak derisively of 'imagined communities', as if somehow there was no inherent difference between Belgium and Bahrain, or Japan and Jordan
June 23, 2024
12 mins
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When the Constitution's framers set to work all agreed the legal-institutional framework of their new nation should be under the Crown. Without going anywhere near making Australia a republic, the lease on Yarralumla being handed to a hack careerist and Labor apparatchik suggests it is a moment to regret that Sir George Grey didn't get his way
May 31, 2024
30 mins
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It's fair enough to dislike a politician for his or her policies and even, truth be told, for reasons trivial as comportment and Plasticene smiles. But the reasons to detest Anthony Albanese, not just as a politician but as a person, are almost too many to list
May 29, 2024
8 mins
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As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so […]
May 28, 2024
11 mins
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In 1938, Neville Chamberlain described Hitler’s demands on the Sudetenland […]
May 28, 2024
9 mins
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"Every time we have offered a clear right-wing Conservative philosophy we have won handsomely. When we’ve not done that, we have failed. This reflects the fact that there are large numbers of British people who still want to see traditional Conservative policies, who still believe in the traditional virtues of conservatism, economic and social cohesion"
May 15, 2024
22 mins
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His Orientalism has done much to shape and twist perceptions of students and Islamists backing Hamas. The Columbia academic, a habitual liar, built his career on defaming the West, where he preferred to live, while depicting alleged wrongs done to the society where, since childhood, he had never lived
May 9, 2024
13 mins
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The West's delusion, not least that of the US, was that it could do business with Tehran. Instead, while the Obama and Biden administration lavished access to billions of dollars on Iran, opportunism drew Moscow and the mullahs together. The latter hopes Putin will aid their nuclear quest, the former warily appreciative of the drones unleashed against Ukraine -- and, in the last 24 hours, against Israel
April 14, 2024
21 mins
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When the Constitution's framers set to work all agreed the legal-institutional framework of their new nation should be under the Crown. Without going anywhere near making Australia a republic, the lease on Yarralumla being handed to a hack careerist and Labor apparatchik suggests it is a moment to regret that Sir George Grey didn't get his way
April 5, 2024
17 mins
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US foreign policy under Donald Trump’s tenure was nationalist but not isolationist. He stood up to Russia when it counted -- at Khasham in 2018, for example, when he unleashed hellfire on Wagner soldiers threatening a US base in Syria, prompting Putin to thereafter steer well clear. Today everything has changed. Iran attacks American bases with apparent impunity while Houthis sink Red Sea shipping
March 21, 2024
21 mins