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Maths without Taking Your Shoes Off

Maths without Taking Your Shoes Off

I rather suspect that the fad for “indigenous maths and science” among Humanities academics is driven by their own inability to comprehend maths and science. Anyone can be a maths genius, after all, if your mathematics doesn’t involve counting past ten — twenty, if you take your shoes off. And

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Some Genocides Are More Equal Than Others

Some Genocides Are More Equal Than Others

Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer whose work has appeared in print and online worldwide. The author of over ten books, mostly about fringe beliefs and eccentrics, his latest title, “Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science” (Pen & Sword/Frontline) is available now, and exposes how

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Is This the Way to Eliminate Poverty?

Is This the Way to Eliminate Poverty?

Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. I just got back from the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations. The theme of the Commission this year was ending poverty. I spent a week listening

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The Jury Is Out on Pro-Natalist Policies

The Jury Is Out on Pro-Natalist Policies

Meaghan Whyte Meaghan became a staunch anarcho-capitalist after a collection of life experiences that left her disabused of any vestige of goodwill towards the state and its attendant institutions. Notable experiences included university gender studies, and living under social democracy. Now, she writes to advocate for the abolition of the

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ANZAC 2024: The Post-Christian West

ANZAC 2024: The Post-Christian West

Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org A large part of the success of Western civilisation was that our European ancestors saw fit to mount an enormous civil war during the Reformation and Counter Reformation to defang Catholic theocracy during the pernicious times of the Inquisition. It climaxed with the regicide of the

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Is Diversity Really Our Strength?

Is Diversity Really Our Strength?

As I’ve written before, so many conventional wisdoms are built on foundations of quicksand. From the firmly held belief in “Settler Colonialism” in the New World to the endlessly asserted claims of low immigrant crime, so much that we’re furiously finger-wagged is “fact”, is anything but. Interviewing Jello

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Racist Advertising

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Over the last six months, it’s become fashionable for our advertising agencies to use Maoris in their television advertisements. With only a single exception, they are always portrayed as obese simpering simpletons. On the other hand, European models in these adverts are usually physically

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Is Euthanasia the Right Solution to This?

Is Euthanasia the Right Solution to This?

Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor in chief of Mercator. He lives in Sydney, Australia. mercatornet.com The Titanic sank after it collided with an unseen iceberg. Western societies with low birthrates are steaming straight towards an iceberg in broad daylight. But they refuse to change course. The problem

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Police did not issue a press release when Creedence died and his death went unreported by media; there was none of the usual public outrage that comes when a child dies by violence. Following questions from Stuff earlier this month, police confirmed they had launched a homicide investigation after Creedence’

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Are They Really Us?

Are They Really Us?

Time and again, we are finger-wagged that “They are Us”. That Muslims are just like any other immigrant group, all itching to assimilate into mainstream Western culture. Just like Irish and Italians but with funny beards and veils. Such sunny optimism, though, is only sustainable if you pay no attention

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Trad Roles Are Making a Comeback

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. Her

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Where the Western Consensus on FGM Has Come Unstuck

Where the Western Consensus on FGM Has Come Unstuck

Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator mercatornet.com In the United States, Australia, and Europe there can be no cause more idealistic, more popular, and more progressive than the abolition of female genital mutilation (FGM). Many countries have banned it; NGOs educate people about it. The United Nations

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The West Really Is the Best

The West Really Is the Best

Westerners, what the hell is wrong with you? seems to be the question that Indian-Australian author Ramesh Thakur would like to shake into the addled heads of the left-elite. Having witnessed first hand the suffocation of democracy in first India, then Fiji, Thakur is perplexed by the growing disdain for

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Labour’s Legacy of the Last Three Years

Labour’s Legacy of the Last Three Years

Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984–1990 governments. bassettbrashandhide.com The Labour Government lost the 2023 election when its support halved from 2020. It deserved to lose on

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A World Wonder Nears Completion

A World Wonder Nears Completion

To we moderns, the people who built the great cathedrals of Europe are incomprehensible. After all, these were constructions which took centuries to build. Why, wonder generations brought up on a lifetime of instant gratification, would anyone work on a building which they, or even their grandchildren, never see finished?

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No ‘Pride Month’ for Down Syndrome

No ‘Pride Month’ for Down Syndrome

bobmccoskrie.com Last Thursday was World Down Syndrome Day – and as part of the celebration they encouraged a #LotsOfSocks day. Did your workplace have a #LotsofSocks day? Probably not. It was about celebrating ‘diversity’. Woke media, companies and schools love diversity. Just not this diversity as much as the letters

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