Where would Laurel and Hardy stand on gender fluidity or Charles Laughton in regard to global warming? We don't know and, quite frankly, would only think less of them for shooting from the lip. It's a lesson the Oscars' dismal ratings should impress upon today's Tinseltown sermonisers if only they were bright enough to absorb it

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It is difficult, at this stage, to see what will trigger a rebound of interest rates into more normal territory. And why is that? Because extremely low interest rates, contrary to conventional wisdom, tend to prevent the kind of robust economic recovery. What they are, and what they have now produced, is an ongoing madness afflicting central banks

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The presumption should be that speech outside of the workplace on matters unrelated to workplace activities should be free from threat of penalties. Alas that activists have warped the minds of many in politics, industry, the media and the population generally. Such is the stricken state of contemporary society

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Some dopey reporter at Davos challenged Trump about Thunberg criticizing his policies. “How old is she,” he responded. Now use some imagination and name any other world leader who would have the temerity to put into words what anyone of common sense thinks

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For those driven to catastropharian despair by thoughts of what a trace gas is allegedly doing to life on earth, the solution should be obvious: go fill-tilt nuclear. They'll never agree to that, of course, which is why, if alarmists genuinely believe their own nonsense, all those carbonphobic green feet must be held to the fire

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Those on the Left, being childlike in their unthinking enthusiasms, are mostly republicans and prone to the pursuit of instant gratification, hang the details and consequences. That said, I might -- stress on "might" -- back a republic, but only if the likes of Peter FitzSimons spell out in explicit detail what they have in mind

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We can be certain the climate debate has reached the lowest ebb when children are made the pawns of rent-seekers and political panic merchants. As to what might remedy the problem -- if there is a problem, that is -- the prescriptions so far do more harm than the alleged disease

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What can charitably said of Christians who identify with leftist politics? The two simply don’t mix because Christians should not be complicit in producing misery. And there is ample evidence, not least in the pleas for Divine intervention of my climate-activist fellow congregants, showing that leftist policies do just that

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Morality is central to who we are. Despite large-scale moral lapses down the centuries and a myriad of smaller ones in everyday life, we must be moral creatures, at least overwhelmingly so. If this were not the case, we would surely lead a very fearful, brutal, rude and tenuous existence. Is this morality a gift […]

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The extremism which has taken over the Democratic Party has become the new normal. Without exception the presidential candidates espouse the most ridiculous, untenable dangerous and debilitating policies without being laughed off the stage

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