Sky News host Andrew Bolt says a “stronger and more aggressive China spells danger for Australia”, visible in the brawl at Queensland University on Wednesday.
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To be sure, his daughter Katey was correct: Dickens was a wicked man – a very wicked man.
When I read that some educationalists have decreed the novel is now considered ‘problematic’ with its ‘white saviour’ narrative and use of racial slurs, then I can’t but help but despair at how quickly something so culturally significant can be memory holed in the pursuit of progressive ideals.
This is not science. It is politics dressed up as health. If we applied the standards used for caffeine to nicotine, pouches and vaping would be treated as unremarkable adult choices.
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“For me it’s just a massive honour, not something I would ever expect or even thought was ever going to be a possibility,” Dixon told Stuff.
The word for today is… propriety (noun) - 1: the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness 2a: conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or speech b: proprieties plural : the customs and manners of polite society c: fear of offending against conventional rules of behavior especially
