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Andrew Sullivan on Why Wokeness Will Fail

Andrew Sullivan on Why Wokeness Will Fail

Andrew Sullivan writes after Barack Obama has himself commented on the dangers of wokeness: Take  the biggest actual social change, hailed by liberals, of the last  couple of decades: marriage equality. We did not spend our time calling  out homophobia, attacking the churches, or describing our opponents as  “deplorable.” We

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EV Ranking in the Dog & Lemon Guide

EV Ranking in the Dog & Lemon Guide

The European EV experience of choosing renewable energy over fossil fuels has, so far, proved economically unsustainable. The Dog and Lemon Guide says that hybrids are “nice in theory, shame about the reality”. “Many of the sales of hybrids in America are to people who simply want to be able

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What Comes After Islamic State?

What Comes After Islamic State?

While the execution of the monstrous Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi should rightly be celebrated, it must never be forgotten that terrorism is a hydra-headed beast. Cut off one head, and a new one or dozen grow to take its place. So where to for ISIS, now their caliph has been despatched

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So Much for ‘Safeguards’

So Much for ‘Safeguards’

Proponents of medical killing invariably couch their defence in terms of “safeguards”. This might seem plausible enough in theory – but practical experience is quite another matter. As practical experience shows, once the laws are passed and the Rubicon crossed, “safeguards” are very quickly watered down. In the Netherlands, for instance,

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

In 2015, Canada elected a substitute drama teacher, a self-admitted drug-user, a failed student of Engineering with zero accomplishments in his 40+ years to lead the country. While in office his penchant for repeatedly wearing blackface in his past and for dressing up in silly costumes while representing his country

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Greeks Need to Tell the EU to Shove It

Greeks Need to Tell the EU to Shove It

If there’s one thing that’s obvious about the globalist left-elite, it’s that they never deign to live in the world of their own making. The plutocrats of Silicon Valley and Washington secure themselves in walled compounds far from the stench of human filth that’s overwhelming cities

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The Deadly Cost of Green Alarmism

The Deadly Cost of Green Alarmism

Groucho Marx’s famous truism that “politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies” missed one key element: “and making things worse than they were”. In the case of climate change alarmism: much, much worse. The pigtailed ignoramus saint

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The Green Recycling Dream is a Bureaucratic Nightmare

The Green Recycling Dream is a Bureaucratic Nightmare

As we have alluded to several times recently at The BFD, there are markedly different approaches to environmental issues which seem notably dependent on one’s political philosophy. For instance, the Klimate Kult is fixated on narcissistic public protest almost entirely dissociated from empirical reality, while offering no solutions other

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Morrison Thinks for Himself: Bureaucrats Outraged

Morrison Thinks for Himself: Bureaucrats Outraged

Listening to the ABC on the radio last year, a couple of earnest, bog-standard lefties were discussing the Trump presidency and clutching their pearls. “He’s upsetting the established global order!” they wailed. That’s the whole damn point! I fumed to myself. If the American people had wanted to

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Portrait of an ‘Austere Religious Scholar’

Portrait of an ‘Austere Religious Scholar’

A bad wog blew himself up this week and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. No… really. If we believed the nonsense published about this terrible, evil man we would think that he actually was a nice guy, just misunderstood. BFD commenter LisaInNZ summed up the reality

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