Buckling Under the Rising Populist Threat
What to do when demonization, lawfare, and cultural indoctrination will no longer save you from your own deeply loathed policies?
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Displaying Names of Islamic Terrorists for Jewish New Year
Whatever your view on Israel’s actions, it should surely have been embarrassingly obvious to CofE employees that holding a display of this kind, at this particular period of the Jewish calendar, would be widely seen as perpetrating a deliberate open insult against Jews. Yet they didn’t. Why?
If This Isn’t ‘Primitive’ Then What Is?
When the ‘world’s oldest living culture’ clocks on for another shift.
Terrorism Hasn’t Gone Away, Just Hushed Up
Albanese’s silence on four ‘major’ plots tells you more than any press conference would.
Purging Normal People From the Workplace
Females wanting to conserve women’s rights, conservative Christians, and straight white men in general are increasingly being excluded from employment and wider Australian society.
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So, Mamdani Marts for NZ?
Change the Commerce Commission’s 6.2 per cent weighted cost of capital and the alleged excess profit claim disappears, taking with it the Green Party rationale for state intervention and their plan for ‘Mamdani Marts’ across New Zealand.
The Options Are Shrinking
What’s it going to be? A tilt towards extremism or a self-sacrificial Grand Coalition?
Ideas That Test My Strength
A bit of honesty would be preferable to trying to hoodwink the electorate with unworkable policies. You might fool some of the people some of the time but you won’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Quick Hit: Labour Breaks Both. Nat Breaks One. ACT Breaks Nothing.
Labour would force Woolworths and Foodstuffs to split retail from wholesale. National still hedges Foodstuffs behind ComCom. Seymour brings the scissors. Breakup season. Same aisle. Three scripts. Labour breaks both. Nat breaks one (maybe). ACT breaks nothing.
Now Parliamentary Licence With a Halo
The serjeant is still there. The standards are not. Where does it end? When every sitting needs him. And he is attacked as a symbol of colonial oppression. Our Parliament becomes a rabble and Westminster is lost.