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Last Hurrah of the Serial Killers

Last Hurrah of the Serial Killers

They’ve spawned books by the thousands and movie and true-crime documentaries by the hundreds, but is the Golden Age of the Serial Killer coming to an end? Serial murder is nothing new, of course. Records of what are now recognised as serial killings go back as far as Chinese

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Now That’s What I Call a Snake

Now That’s What I Call a Snake

In Australian author Greig Beck’s ripping Lost World Primordia series, a group of moderns are time-transported into the primeval South American jungle. They encounter all sorts of prehistoric beasties, all very much alive and hungry. But the ‘boss’ monster is a terrifying gigantic snake: the aptly named Titanoboa: 14m

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Has Plato’s Tomb Been Found?

Has Plato’s Tomb Been Found?

It’s often said that all Western philosophy is ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’. Of course, Plato was the successor to Socrates (and if you pronounced that ‘Soh-krayts’, you’re clearly a person of culture and distinction), and the contemporary of Aristotle, but it’s certainly indisputable that Plato’

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Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. A former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org “Power

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A Critical Cusp – Lest We Forget

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Mary Hobbs, photographer, writer and publisher shares a poignant account of Anzac Day, reflecting on its history and its significance in the here and now as we stand on a seemingly critical cusp for the future of humanity. With national and

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And What of Our Future?

And What of Our Future?

Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made. JRR Tolkien Popular products still missing from supermarket shelves and school attendance and labour productivity below par: it’s the sick-note culture, as they’re calling it in the UK after the

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The Way Things Were

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently someone sent me a faded photo of my standard four class in Lower Hutt, 75 years ago. The oddities vis a vis the current situation were first, a total of 44 of us. I’m told in state schools today the maximum class size

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Why Karl Marx Desperately Needed Jordan Peterson’s Advice

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org As I make my way through Paul Kengor’s wonderful book The Devil and Karl Marx, numerous things stand out about the father of communism. It’s not an exaggeration

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What Don’t They Want Us to See?

What Don’t They Want Us to See?

As the Albanese government digs in ever deeper on Labor’s latest attempt to impose censorship (never forget that Julia Gillard tried to impose a government censor on the media), it’s worth asking: why? Why is Labor so especially determined to censor footage of a Muslim extremist stabbing a

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Five Things We Discovered When We Made 16th Century Beer

Susan Flavin Associate professor of history, Trinity College Dublin Charlie Taverner Research fellow, history, Trinity College Dublin It’s true that our 16th-century ancestors drank much more than Irish people do today. But why they did so and what their beer was like are questions shrouded in myth. The authors

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The 1950s Queen St Parking Protest

The 1950s Queen St Parking Protest

By 8 am Auckland was in gridlock. At 9 am when most retailers would open, Queen St was in turmoil without those parking spaces. Most motorists were blaming the motorcyclists, as this deliberate move to bring Auckland CBD to its knees was kept reasonably quiet so no media warning of

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Christchurch Soldier Maintains Strong Family Connection With Gallipoli

Christchurch Soldier Maintains Strong Family Connection With Gallipoli

Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com Corporal Johns’ strong military heritage makes representing the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) at the services in Türkiye on 25 April extra significant, in particular

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