They look human, sound like it too. But when you say something with which they disagree, it's not rational argument that ensues but shrieking, howling invective and the demand that you be silenced once and for all. Having principles is a liability these days, which is why so many won't stand by them

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Do we put too much store on dragging out our lives? There are any number of set days when there are collections in the cause of finding cures for various morbidities. None of it does any good in the end result. We will all die anyway and within a comparatively short space of time.

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A friend of mine, knowing I had some background in economics, asked me whether I could write something to make sense of today’s extremely low interest rates. He finds it puzz­ling. I did too. So, I decided to try to make sense of it all. Partly, it is a race to the bottom, I concluded. […]

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Israel Folau's sermons aren't the real problem, unpleasant as many find them. The problem is the anti-Christian, woke, intersectional, censorious, cancel-culturing age we live in. That and failure to remember that we pay for our sins, down here at least, by the trouble they bring us

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Just how woke must you be to approve of women being thrashed by opponents who enjoy the natural advantage of having been born male? I do not accept that the man and woman in the street accept such an injustice -- and neither should genetically female athletes

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Force-feeding children socialist nostrums and climate change nonsense must have been going on for decades under the radar. Many are now grown and have become teachers, university lecturers, broadcasters and journalists. That explains an awful lot about the festering malaise in the Western heart

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Don’t get me wrong, as I am all in favour of taxing the well-heeled. But soaking the rich, as the Left forever advocates, will see investment stall, capital stock run down, progress go into reverse and poverty increase. Welcome to your socialist paradise: an equality of impoverishment for all

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The former Opposition leader was not alone in asking voters to endorse a platform self-evidently intended to screw and beggar young and old alike. But he's the one who took the fall, leaving Labor to conduct its review of what went wrong and, or so we are told, mend its ways. Believe that and there is every chance you are also in the market for a nice, carbon-free bridge

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The replacement of the word 'sex' by 'gender' may be a product of random slovenliness, though I suspect intelligent design on the part of leftists and their LGBTQI allies. Whatever its provenance, it has contributed to foolish thinking. Let’s take the trouble, politely of course, to correct those who maul the language

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Republican presidents are always demonised by the Left but this time, with this president, it is different. The hate is palpable, extreme and unremitting, the depths unfathomable to which his enemies will descend in order to stitch him up with this bogus conspiracy or that one. Yet, with an aplomb not seen outside a superhero comic, he pummels them left and right

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