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23/01/2024

It’s not just cricket | Senator Babet

Cricket Australia has announced they will not celebrate Australia Day during Day Two of the Brisbane Test which falls on January 26.

The decision to snub Australia Day comes after Cricket Australia received advice from its Indigenous Advisory Body.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. Why on earth does Cricket Australia have an Indigenous Advisory Body?

As if we needed more evidence that political and corporate elites were completely out of touch with middle Australia, along came the cricket… Cricket Australia has announced they will not celebrate…

23/01/2024

Lockdown debt leads to Kenya safari cash-grab
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The shuttering of Kenya’s $8.5 billion tourist industry – and the decision to implement vaccine passports and other restrictions until May last year – proved particularly damaging, with billions in much-needed revenue lost to the Treasury.

Poaching also rocketed during the lockdowns. The KWS reported a 51.4 per cent rise in bushmeat poaching during the first shutdown, as millions of Kenyans struggled to put food on the table.

‘It was a terrible time,’ said Kennedy Wanja, 39, who works as a game driver at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy. ‘The entire tourism industry was dead. So many people who were relying on tourism were left with nothing. My colleagues and neighbours would call asking, Is there anything you can send to help us?’

A High Court battle will take place in Kenya on February 7, as safari operators and Kenyan officials clash over the more-than-doubling of conservation levies. The daily charges – which foreign…

23/01/2024

Howz that?

If the great Australian dream dies, all the smoking ceremonies in the world will not pull us out of an impending spiritual doom.

When exactly did the great Australian dream start to die? Even conservative commentators are acquiescing to signs that we’re about to lose again, this time on faithful bricks and mortar. For some…

23/01/2024

Creepy e-bike graveyards
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Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of e-bikes were photographed piling up in what has been unofficially dubbed, ‘China’s e-bike graveyard’. It has been going on for years, with no end in sight.

Despite all the green hype surrounding the ‘dockless bike-share’ industry, it is producing an extraordinary amount of waste. Like wind turbine blades, these e-bikes are congregating in Xiamen and Shenyang, among other places, where they are largely left to rot in a sea of metal and rubber.

In some cases, these fields of bikes are several stories high, reshaping the landscape with the failed dreams of green urban enthusiasts. Not only are bikes dumped because they are damaged, some of China’s largest e-bike companies have collapsed. Many more are confiscated by government authorities. It is a disaster.

Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of e-bikes were photographed piling up in what has been unofficially dubbed, ‘China’s e-bike graveyard’. It has been going on for years, with no end in sight.

23/01/2024

Why is measles on the rise?
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In some areas and groups in London, coverage of the first MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) dose is as low as 69.5 per cent. Approximately 10 per cent of children in the UK are unprotected from measles by the time they start school, with coverage at 12 year lows. The country is well below the 95 per cent required for herd immunity: just 84.5 per cent of people were fully vaccinated last year.

There is evidence that children from some ethnic groups are less likely to be immunised than others: in London those of an Indian background were more likely to be fully covered than white British children. African and African-Caribbean children were much less likely to be covered. Most major religions do not oppose the idea of vaccination, but certain religious or cultural considerations – such as dietary rules – can shape attitudes and decisions. These are not concerns policymakers can shy away from.

Having endured months of restrictions on our freedoms to deal with Covid-19, we now face a major health threat entirely of our own making: vaccine hesitancy. Measles – a centuries-old contagious…

23/01/2024

Cost of living crisis? You get what you vote for
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Foreign nationals snaffling up prime real estate may not concern politicians, but the working class are being robbed of their chance to own a home.

If the value of something is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it, who is left in Sydney that can afford to spend $1.2 million on a house? Certainly not the average Australian.

23/01/2024

Will the real Australia Day please stand up?

For many Australians it is a day to celebrate a rich and diverse culture made more so by the contributions to the national fabric by many recent migrants and people of overseas descent. Some arrived voluntarily and some as convicts. Nevertheless, for many, it is seen as a celebration of the history of Australia.

Australia Day is celebrated as the official national day and is marked by national celebrations, community and family events, and citizenship ceremonies. For many Australians it is a day to celebrate…

23/01/2024

A choice between two Aboriginal schools or Victorian treaty: it’s a no-brainer
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Despite being told 'no', the Victorian Parliament is pushing ahead with treaty preparations in violation of the Victorian people.

No surprises there.

The recent failure of the Voice to Parliament referendum has given conservative voters in Victoria some glimmer of hope that the spineless Victorian Opposition might actually start to read the…

23/01/2024

For the love of our country | Don’t raze Australian culture in the name of progress
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This Australia Day will be celebrated by a divided and demoralised community. Inflation and bracket creep have eaten into the living standards of millions of Australians, with many suffering financial distress. Anti-Semitism is rife in our cities, and in many of our leading institutions, threatening the Jewish community and dismaying the silent majority. The divisive Voice referendum is fresh in our minds. The psychological hangover from punitive Covid lockdowns has not abated. Each of these, on its own, would test community cohesion and morale. Together, they threaten to do permanent damage to our social fabric.

At times like this, the things we cherish in common assume a greater-than-usual importance: our shared nationality in all its diversity; the distinctive Australian values and characteristics in which we take pride – our egalitarianism, our lack of respect for pretension, even our familiar, typically Australian greetings to each other; the national symbols and touchstones to which we instinctively respond including the success of sportsmen and women who represent us; and yes, our national rituals, including Australia Day.

This Australia Day will be celebrated by a divided and demoralised community. Inflation and bracket creep have eaten into the living standards of millions of Australians, with many suffering financial…

23/01/2024

Taking ‘conserve’ out of conservative | There is much to jettison in the Anglosphere
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What do we voters formerly known as ‘conservatives’ do when much of what was worth conserving has been jettisoned? Tough question. But I think I’ve gone a long way in explaining the appeal of Mr Trump, the so-called populist parties in Europe, and the current Tory leader in Canada, Mr. Poilievre, who is up 10-15 points in the polls. He’s promised all sorts of ‘radical’ policies such as halving the CBC’s budget. And we ‘conservatives’ love it.

In the developed Anglosphere countries over the past couple of centuries, there has been a general understanding of what it means to be a conservative voter. In rough and ready terms…

23/01/2024

Books | Flirting in 15th-century Florence
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In his history of male-male sexual relations, Noel Malcolm describes how a man in Renaissance Italy would seduce a boy in the street by seizing his hat and holding it ransom.

Noel Malcolm, a former political columnist of The Spectator, the historian of English nonsense verse and editor of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, has written a book on an arresting subject.

23/01/2024

Books | A redemptive fable: Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips, reviewed
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Set in the Appalachian Mountains, the novel centres around a family struggling to survive domestic abuse and abandonment in the aftermath of the American civil war.

The Appalachians have become fashionable fictional territory. Following Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain and Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer and Demon Copperhead comes Jayne Anne Phillips’s Night…

23/01/2024

How The Sopranos changed TV for ever
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Peter Biskind describes how a once despised medium became the definitive narrative art form of the early 21st century. But has it now passed its peak?

‘Too many characters, too many plot lines, characters who weren’t very good at their jobs, and their personal lives were a mess.’ Thus the memo to the creatives behind Hill Street Blues.

23/01/2024

Peter Craven | Greek tragedies
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It’s the time of year when there’s a lot of talk about films and catching up with films. Along with this, there has been talk about a new young Australian star, Jacob Elordi, who plays Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, and a young English toff in Saltburn. It’s hard to imagine that Coppola, who could make a film of genius like The Virgin Suicides from the Jeffrey Eugenides novel, wouldn’t put Elordi’s talent to significant use but we haven’t caught up with the film yet that started in cinemas on January 18.

You can, however, see Saltburn on Amazon Prime Video, and for all Elordi’s viability as a star, the film looks from the start very sub-Brideshead Revisited with a working-class boy from Liverpool (Barry Keoghan from The Banshees of Inisherin) taken by Elordi to meet his family and get the hefty sense of upper-class life via Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, and Carey Mulligan. It’s quite enough to make anyone give up on watching the film, but what transpires plot-wise is silly beyond belief and makes you feel the producers took leave of their senses.

All of which is enough to drive you to something a bit older and steadier. Well, things don’t come much older and steadier than Homer’s Iliad and we are all in the debt of the actor William Zappa who has prepared an abridged version of the great story of the fatal wrath of Achilles. Think of the moment when the warrior, who has avenged the death of his beloved Patroclus by killing Hector, the Trojan hero, is confronted by Priam, the Trojan king, who begs for his dead son’s body and says in Zappa’s translation that he has suffered, ‘what no man in the world should have to endure, that is to kiss the hands of the man who killed his most loved son’. Achilles – hard not to see with the face of the young Peter O’Toole – says, ‘But you were happy too in days gone by.’

It’s the time of year when there’s a lot of talk about films and catching up with films. Along with this, there has been talk about a new young Australian star, Jacob Elordi, who plays Elvis Presley…

23/01/2024

Gladiators was never good TV | James Delingpole
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I’m sure there’s a Portuguese word which describes ‘enforced nostalgia for a thing you never enjoyed in the first place’. Whatever it is, it applies in spades to BBC1’s reboot of Gladiators, which we’re now told was one of the landmarks of 1990s Saturday TV entertainment but which I don’t recall fondly one bit, despite having a child who would have been just the right age to enjoy it.

What I do remember was the desperate contrivance of it all. The Fawn, I recall, was invited to go with our boy the Rat to write up a feature on the very first show and interview the stars. She came back traumatised. Her head throbbed with Queen’s excruciating ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ thumping on auto-repeat; she kept having flashbacks to nightmare visions of giant foam hands thrusting towards the girders of some remote, garishly lit indoor arena; worst of all, though, was the unutterable, grinding boredom. From this threadbare material she was expected to write up a piece hailing Gladiators as the next big thing.

I’m sure there’s a Portuguese word which describes ‘enforced nostalgia for a thing you never enjoyed in the first place’. Whatever it is, it applies in spades to BBC1’s reboot of Gladiators, which we’…

23/01/2024

Books | The man who got the West to fall in love with India's sacred literature
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The first European translation of the Bhagavad Gita, a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Lord Krishna, appeared in English in 1785. Strangely, this classic of Indian spirituality, which is much concerned with liberation, was prefaced with talk of conquest, rightful dominion and chains of subjection.

The translation had been produced under the auspices of the English East India Company, then in the process of claiming for itself ever-larger swaths of territory in India. The first edition incorporated a letter written by the governor-general in Calcutta, Warren Hastings, in which he compared the Gita with Homer and Milton. He also noted its usefulness as a source of intelligence on a newly subject people and the potential for English interest in the Gita to soften Indians’ hearts towards their rulers.

The first European translation of the Bhagavad Gita, a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Lord Krishna, appeared in English in 1785. Strangely, this classic of Indian spirituality…

23/01/2024

Music | Americans still think 'punk rock' was about the music, bless them
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Of their many cultural quirks, Americans retain a slightly ridiculous and yet rather touching belief in the power of ‘punk rock’ (nobody in the UK ever calls it that, of course: it’s just ‘punk’).

Despite laying claim to the progenitors of the whole punk thing – the Stooges, the New York Dolls, the Ramones – Americans still don’t quite seem to understand it. They actually think it was about the music, bless them. More bafflingly, they seem to regard ‘punk rock’ as something that has enduring currency, rather than being a brief – though significant – cultural phenomenon of the mid-to-late 1970s that was more or less over before it began.

Of their many cultural quirks, Americans retain a slightly ridiculous and yet rather touching belief in the power of ‘punk rock’ (nobody in the UK ever calls it that, of course: it’s just ‘punk’).

23/01/2024

France’s protesting farmers have spooked Emmanuel Macron
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The farmers of France are mobilising. Their anger will be an early test for Gabriel Attal; the countryside is unknown territory for the new prime minister, a young man raised in the affluent suburbs of Paris, like the majority of Emmanuel Macron’s government.

The farmers of France are mobilising. Their anger will be an early test for Gabriel Attal; the countryside is unknown territory for the new prime minister, a young man raised in the affluent suburbs…

23/01/2024

Ron DeSantis’s cursed campaign
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Ron DeSantis’ political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down.’ Well, he just did. A week ago, he said of Trump: ‘You can be the most worthless Republican in America, but if you kiss the ring he’ll say you’re wonderful.’ Well, he just endorsed Trump for the presidency in 2024.

Ron DeSantis’ political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down.’ Well, he just did. A week ago, he said of Trump: ‘You can be the most worthless Republican in America, but if you kiss the ring he’…

23/01/2024

Kiwi life | David Cohen - The pavlova wars
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New Zealanders and Australians are forever at loggerheads over this and many other questions of who invented what first.

In which of the country’s cafés was a flat white first served? Who should be held responsible for unleashing Russell Crowe on the cinematic world? Where did the alleged pop band Crowded House come from? But the debate over the origins of ‘our’ cake-like dessert has been going on now for almost a century, making it possibly the longest-running culinary spat this side of the absurdly vehement arguments in the Middle East about who invented hummus.

As the latest iteration goes, a new advertisement that appeared next to the baggage carousel at Auckland airport around Christmas has spurred a ‘declaration of war’ between the Kiwis and the Aussies over the allegedly beloved dessert, which, depending on whether you happen to be consuming this fluffy meringue construction in Canberra or Christchurch, comes served with strawberries, kiwifruit, passionfruit, or, er, pineapple cubes.

The offending sign was put up by the local energy company Contact. It shows two children with the legend: ‘Home is where the pavlova was really created’. Not Australia, mind, but little old New Zealand, or so the sign suggested. And the rest, as they say, is hysteria.

Ah, summer. The sap is rising, and so are anxiety levels on either side of the Tasman as editors cast about for something suitably soft and creamy to fill the spaces that have emptied out as normal…

22/01/2024

Taiwan rebuffs Xi’s overtures

Despite pressure from the Chinese Communist party, the Taiwanese people clearly rejected the overtures from Beijing to elect a more pro-China candidate.

The Presidential Office in Taiwan is an impressive building, quite distinct from most of the architecture in Taipei. For the best part of a century, it rose above the wooden and concrete tenements of…

21/01/2024

The painful legacy of anti-nuclear campaigns on clean energy progress
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Litton’s infamous quote, ‘You don’t need power … you can go back to using a spear and picking berries,’ encapsulates his rejection of California’s economic growth.

This agenda became a cornerstone of a wider anti-nuclear activists’ narratives, inaccurately equating nuclear energy with nuclear bombs and spreading unfounded fears about radioactivity. Their successful campaign introduced stringent regulations, drove up construction costs, and led to the abandonment of numerous nuclear projects...

On May 7, 1966, Martin Litton, a member of the Sierra Club’s board of directors, cast a fateful vote against the construction of a nuclear plant in Diablo Canyon, California. Little did anyone know…

21/01/2024

Putin’s useful idiot down under

"Albanese should give Ukraine our retired army helicopters not bury them..." Mark Higgie

We endlessly hear concerns about the abysmal capacity for concentration of Generation Z, said to stretch barely to the length of a TikTok video. But is the attention span of the Albanese government on…

21/01/2024

When gold’s real price breaks out | John Gideon Hartnett and Rafi Farber

As the Austrian School economists know, inflation distorts price signals unevenly. It may be tempting to try to filter out inflation from any given good or service to find its real price had the…

21/01/2024

How the National Maritime Museum is trying to decolonise Lord Nelson
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A madness has been infecting our leading museums in recent months. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge put together a ‘Black Atlantic’ exhibition that brought together items connected one way or another with the slave trade. Ignoring all other explanations, the captions maintained that the reason a famous prize was offered by the Royal Society to whoever could work out how to measure longitude was that the crews of slave ships needed greater accuracy when navigating their way across the Atlantic. Now the Royal Academy of Arts is launching its own display about colonialism, imperialism and slavery.

The National Maritime Museum has been gravitating in the same direction for the last few years. This is sad because it is one of the most popular museums in London, and attracts large numbers of foreign tourists, who must be bewildered by the persistent attempts to politicise the way we look at Britain’s past. Lord Nelson and his contemporaries have been particular targets of initiatives that aim to demote them from their pedestals. A new sculpture has been installed to set the record straight. A ‘Sea Deity’ has been cast in bronze, designed by Eve Shepherd with the help of local children and the charity Action for Refugees Lewisham. The artist has moulded a beautiful face in a traditional, almost neo-classical, way, but we are expected to see the Deity as non-binary – hence the gender-neutral term Deity. The children who helped the artist design her work of art were, like the boy in ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, more inclined to tell the truth: when they saw the finished work, they named the lovely deity Olympia, having decided that she is female.

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🔱Ahead of we want to introduce the powerful ‘The Sea Deity’ sculpture from the National Maritime Museum’s Sea Things gallery.

Commissioned by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Courtesy of Eve shepherd. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/sZ1Y3x3Jty

— Royal Museums Greenwich () June 16, 2023

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The aim is to involve what the Maritime Museum loves to call its ‘stakeholders’, a term that potentially embraces pretty well the whole of humanity but seems to focus on the people who live in and around Greenwich. It is an ethnically mixed area and the ‘Sea Deity’ is also supposed to be of uncertain ethnicity. Shepherd says: ‘Look around the National Maritime Museum, in fact, just thinking about it, any national museum within the UK, and there will be an overabundance of busts and painted portraits depicting white, upper-class men. That is why I accepted this groundbreaking challenge thrown down in the once dusty museum halls of colonial power.’

When you press a button, the Deity enters into a debate with a bust of Lord Nelson, with his ‘fancy medals and uniform’, to whom a whole gallery is dedicated in the museum. The fact is that Nelson was not of aristocratic origins but was the son of a Norfolk country parson from my Cambridge college – rather respectable middle-class than upper-class by the standards of the time. Admiral Troubridge was the son of a baker. If anything, the Royal Navy of its day was a merito-cracy where one had to prove one’s worth, which was surely a major reason for its remarkable success against its less socially mobile rivals. The Deity’s complaint seems to be that historians of maritime power forget about those who toiled in the rigging, eating salt pork and dry ship’s biscuit crawling with weevils, while the officers wined and dined in state in the stern quarters.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/01/how-the-national-maritime-museum-is-trying-to-decolonise-lord-nelson/

I spent Christmas in Turin, with its superb and often neglected museums that are a particular delight because they are uncontaminated by preaching about the evils of European colonialism.

21/01/2024

Britain should watch America – and learn from its mistakes
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Trump’s manner may have upset western leaders, but with hindsight his foreign policy record looks impressive.

For many people, Donald Trump’s victory in Iowa this week will seem incomprehensible. Not only did he win – he did so by a margin that no other Republican has achieved since the state became the first…

21/01/2024

America is seeing a tiny civil war in Texas
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Pundits these days often warn that America may be on the brink of civil war. Finally, they’re right – except that in tiny Eagle Pass, Texas, forget being on the brink. In microcosm, civil war is already under way.

Once again playing immigration hardball, last week the Texas governor Greg Abbott, the vile, heartless Republican whose voodoo doll progressive Democrats poke pins in, sent the Texas National Guard to assume control of an Eagle Pass park used to process migrants and additional lands along the Mexican border. In so doing, the state militia is actively blocking the US Border Patrol from policing several miles along the banks of the Rio Grande. The intention, according to the Texas Military Department, is to block ‘organisations that perpetuate illegal immigrant crossings’. Those organisations would seem to include the federal government.

Pundits these days often warn that America may be on the brink of civil war. Finally, they’re right – except that in tiny Eagle Pass, Texas, forget being on the brink. In microcosm…

21/01/2024

The West must stop playing Mr Nice Guy | World Politics
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I was intrigued to learn from our Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps, that we are now in a ‘pre-war’ phase and that there is an almost inevitability of eventual conflict with one or two of the world’s superpowers. I read his comments on the same day that the German newspaper Das Bild reported that Russia was planning to invade western Europe within 18 months.

This is all very worrying, not least because Grant Shapps is our Defence Secretary. I don’t think I’d trust Grant to provide military back-up for a whelk stall, but then I suspect that his likely successor, John Healey, will be no more effective. The problem both men have is the problem which afflicts the West – we are incapable of being properly aggressive and can only really manage passive aggression.

Iwas intrigued to learn from our Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps, that we are now in a ‘pre-war’ phase and that there is an almost inevitability of eventual conflict with one or two of the world’s…

21/01/2024

Books | How Liverpool soon outgrew the Beatles
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For the bands playing at Eric’s, the celebrated Merseyside punk club of the late 1970s, even to own a Beatles record was considered embarrassing.

‘If any journalist asks you about the Beatles because you’re from Liverpool, say you hate them and you don’t listen to that old crap.’ Such was the advice that the DJ Roger Eagle…

21/01/2024

Have we all become more paranoid since the pandemic?
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Covid-19 proved devastating to our self-confidence and faith in others, says Daniel Freeman, who describes the ‘corrosive’ effects of mistrust on individuals and society .

As anyone who has ever been lucky enough to spend time in a psychiatric hospital knows, you don’t have to be completely mad to be there. A lot of us end up in the care of mental health professionals…

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"If I misgender somebody on Twitter, I'm going to have the police kicking down my door. Yet you can go and yell, 'Gas the Jews!' - and all of this horrendous stuff - and no one has been held accountable." - Sophie Corcoran #australia #auspol #socialjustice #hamasattack #HamasTerrorists #sydney #Israel #Palestine #Palestinians

People were cheered for tearing down the Berlin Wall - but touch an #ULEZ camera, and you'll end up in the clink ------------- There were no police to arrest illegal migrants last weekend engaging in a 'day of jihad' - but when Laurence Fox talked about dismantling the evil surveillance state erected by London Mayor #SadiqKhan SIX POLICE OFFICERS showed up in his front room. When is it acceptable for people to rebel against government overreach? When is it allowable for citizens to tear down the symbols of an authoritarian state? Watch the full interview | https://watch.adh.tv/alexandra-marshall/season:1/videos/leilani-dowding-monday-16-october-2023 #uk #london #climatechange #climatecrisis #globalwarming #environment

Free speech in the UK is in free fall | conservative commentators are running out of platforms as regulator Ofcom closes in 🤐 ----------- Australia has been watching its UK 'parent' go off the rails when it comes to free speech. But before Covid, it seemed as if free speech was making a comeback with GB NEWS. How did it all go so horribly wrong? #FreeSpeech #FreeSpeechMatters #uk #ukpolitics #Ofcom #conservative #RishiSunak Watch the interview | https://watch.adh.tv/alexandra-marshall/season:1/videos/leilani-dowding-monday-16-october-2023

Australiana Podcast 🎧 with Will Kingston | Jeffrey Archer ----------------- Jeffrey Archer is one of the most successful authors of all time. He has been published in 115 countries and more than 50 languages, with international sales passing 275 million copies. But his life has been just as remarkable as any of his stories. It’s a tale of political intrigue, wealth, fame, financial calamity, nobility, crime, incarceration, redemption and love. In this wide-ranging conversation with host Will Kingston, Jeffrey reflects on his life, his work and his three loves: politics, storytelling and his wife, Dame Mary. CLICK TO LISTEN : https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/in-conversation-with-jeffrey-archer/

Was "JOBKEEPER" a serious economic mistake by the Australian government? | Gigi Foster ---------- "We created a situation where there was no economic growth in Australia but there was a huge amount of money injected into the economy. That is going to create an inflationary situation. There was too much money for the amount of economic activity." #costofliving #CostofLivingCrisis #inflation #jobkeeper #covid #COVID19 #COVID19 #lockdown #australia #auspol #economics Watch Spectator TV | https://watch.adh.tv/alexandra-marshall/season:1/videos/gigi-foster-monday-9-october-2023

'Highly educated' Western Liberals are delusional about a lot of things... Communism. Covid. Affirmation surgery. Terror. -------- "It's not just Australian Universities - it's a global university problem. These are a top institutions who we are relying upon to create our next political class..." Some women choose to have serial killers as pen pals, and it seems purple-haired university-educated liberals faint for attention in front of terror groups. Watch Spectator TV | https://watch.adh.tv/spectator-tv/season:3/videos/spectator-tv-australia-friday-13-october-2023

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