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“Living Treasure” Spiked for Criticising “Dictator Dan”

“Living Treasure” Spiked for Criticising “Dictator Dan”

The increasingly shrill defenders of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews are often particularly outraged by references to “Dictator Dan”. If you can criticise the premier on Facebook, they shriek, you’re not in a dictatorship! Except that, as we see, Victorians criticise the premier on Facebook at their peril. Zoe Bruhler,

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The Pandemic That Killed Debate

Stacey Rudin aier.org Carl Sagan famously said, “the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.” This wisdom has been sadly forsaken during the COVID-19 pandemic, when one powerful narrative has taken not only the public but the scientific community, by storm.

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Nutbag Trannies Threaten to Kill Author

Nutbag Trannies Threaten to Kill Author

It’s been said that, if trannies really wanted to convince us that transgenderism is not a mental illness, they might start by not acting so barking mad all the time. Case in point: transgender activists are deeply, furiously, offended by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling’s latest crime-

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Writing for Nasrin

Writing for Nasrin

Anne There’s something about a headscarf on Megan Woods that makes me laugh. Yes, terrible, I laugh. On Ardern it’s a cringe. On Nasrin, I’m upset, bewildered, angry. Nasrin’s dedication as a human rights lawyer, activist and supporter of the movement to free Iranian women of

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PM’s Perilous Promise

PM’s Perilous Promise

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Am I a bad person? Because I would not don the hijab. Ever. It’s not my culture, it has no meaning for me and while I accept someone else has reasons for wearing it, I don’t share them. True tolerance for each other

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Hate Speech Laws Divisive and Dangerous

Hate Speech Laws Divisive and Dangerous

Press Release: ACT Party “The promise of tougher hate speech laws shows the danger of a left-wing government to our fundamental rights and freedoms, and highlights the importance of a strong ACT to hold them all accountable,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Jacinda Ardern today said a re-elected

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Should Scott Atlas Sue His Detractors?

Should Scott Atlas Sue His Detractors?

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Former Stanford professor and now White House advisor Scott Atlas has positioned himself against lockdowns and for widespread reopening of the economy, a position that is backed by high-prestige scientists around the world, including other colleagues at Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford, alongside many medical

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Boomers’ Children of the Damned

Boomers’ Children of the Damned

Demography is destiny. Seven decades of Communist Party policies have left China with a soon-to-crash tsunami of the aged and male. The Middle East and Africa’s impoverished fecundity is flooding the West with single young men on the take. In the West, the children of the Baby

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Don Delivers!

Don Delivers!

Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com Here is a speech by a man who nearly became Prime Minister, and who should have. Don Brash made his speech this week to 10 people at Victoria University, Wellington. A mere 10 people, not because only 10 people wished to be present, but because 10

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