Simon Black Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile sovereignman.com Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Monday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. ACLU and Professor
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of
Michael Cook MercatorNet Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet An expert on women’s issues has rung alarm bells about the potential for eugenics in China’s latest “five-year plan”. Columbia professor Leta Hong Fincher told a panel of China watchers at a virtual conference by the Center
covidplanb.co.nz Only two days after the New Zealand government announced mandatory mask-wearing rules the much-awaited Danish mask study was published, and it is conclusive; masks give no statistically significant protection from COVID-19. Here’s the study: acpjournals.org Results: A total of 3030 participants were
Anthony Caravaggi University of South Wales Holly English University College Dublin When you think of kangaroos and wallabies, you probably don’t think of the temperate climate, unsettled weather and agricultural lands of England. Yet on such pastures, the red-necked wallaby has found a home. Red-necked wallabies have
horizon-magazine.eu Picture this: You’ve experienced no physical sensation beyond your wrists for years, then a doctor drapes a thin, flexible membrane over your hand and, like magic, you can feel the trickle of water through your fingers again. This may sound like an outlandish scenario, but it’
Jonathan Sacks Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948-2020) was a British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher and theologian. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. After stepping down, in addition to his international travelling and speaking engagements and prolific writing, Sacks
Giselle Bastin Flinders University Peter Morgan’s fourth season of The Crown faces perhaps its greatest challenge so far. The 1980s was one of the most documented, catalogued, debated and scrutinised decades of the House of Windsor. Morgan will, no doubt be keenly aware of viewers using telephoto lenses to,
Scott B. Rankin Angus J Duff Thompson Rivers University A growing number of people are redefining what “home” looks like. For many of them, it looks like a van. The trend to #vanlife is fuelled by the declining affordability of homes, rental shortages in urban centres and resort communities, and
Michael Cook MercatorNet Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet How times haven’t changed. The Pamela Anderson of the Roaring Twenties, Mae West, once quipped: “Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.” In 1938 gossip columnist Sheilah Graham calculated that the average “Hollywood
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com I chanced upon this photo in my hometown’s FB Page and was struck by the metaphor for our time that it represents. Presently, Cancel Culture is in full swing and is replacing accepted societal norms with the Globalist’s new or required norm.
Julian Hargreaves University of Cambridge What do you think of your neighbours? And what do they think of you? Concerns around increasing division and polarisation in the UK have persisted stubbornly since the EU referendum in 2016. We hear a lot from academics, politicians and journalists about a supposedly fractured
Francis Phillips mercatornet.com The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination. By Richard J. Evans. Allen Lane. £20.00 $US30.99 Richard J. Evans, former Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and a specialist on Germany’s wartime history, has written a highly readable as well as
William Huang William Huang is a product of the one-child policy as he is the only son in the family. Born and raised in China, it is only when he went overseas to study that he had an epiphany, realizing just how much damage this policy has done to
Fred Too You have no doubt noticed that house prices are rocketing away. A million dollars won’t get you much at all in Wellington and Auckland. Prices have reached unbelievably high levels in nearly all our other cities too. The relentless climb in house prices is increasing disparity as
Nicholas Coppel lens.monash.edu Since the advent of web-based social media platforms, the creation and dissemination of information is no longer in the hands of a few. Citizens can now simultaneously be creators, consumers and spreaders of content. The analytics and algorithms of social media mean citizens have
