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Hillary Brit is The Daily Chrenk’s European correspondent. Brexit.? What a word.? Half noun, half verb.? The word inflicts grammatical torture on my ears every time I hear it.? But …
Read MoreHillary Brit is The Daily Chrenk’s European correspondent. Brexit.? What a word.? Half noun, half verb.? The word inflicts grammatical torture on my ears every time I hear it.? But …
Read MorePut this is the “possibly good idea but it will never happen” file: Here’s a?genius idea from the state of Arizona for how to end our nation’s border standoff and …
Read MoreWith Kelly O’Dwyer pulling the pin on her federal parliamentary career and vacating the previously ultra-safe but now probably not-so-much seat of Higgins, people are popping up in the media …
Read MoreTry as I might I can’t imagine any possible, even unlikely, scenario where the Coalition government in Canberra manages to get?returned in the widely expected May 2019 general election. To …
Read MoreI’m glad that I got the chance to walk down Avenue des Champs-Elysees from Arc de Triomphe towards Louvre when doing so did not mean getting gassed by the police …
Read MoreThe leaders on the way out (I was going to write “outgoing” but it would have been confusing because in one sense they are not) like to leave these sorts …
Read MoreI prefer to live in a country where I can rate my government and not the other way around – but many others don’t have that blessed choice: Millions of …
Read MoreYou could probably stop reading after the oxymoron “Bernie Sanders’ economic adviser”, but if you are as tolerant of differing viewpoints as TDC do read on: The radical idea of …
Read MoreThe voting still continues on the left coast, but from the results so far it seems like the opinion polls were correct in general – the Democrats take the House, …
Read MoreThanks to the good people at Deutche Bank, and via Business Insider, you now know where to travel around the world to get the cheapest cigarettes and beer. Having compared …
Read MoreI feel like the voice crying in the wilderness. I have been writing about government debt, both in the United States and in Australia, for a long time because I …
Read MoreHow many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you are correct. If you have answered “almost 2 million”, you’re …
Read MoreIt’s difficult to have a properly working democracy and decent government finances when the government is a sugar daddy for most citizens: The top fifth of households by -income are …
Read MoreThe progressives love the frisson of imagining dystopias where a few plutocrats enjoy their own private paradise while the masses are condemned to a Hobbesian life of squalor, poverty, violence …
Read MoreAnd?so the Canberra circus rolls on. Perhaps it’s unfair to call it that, as with real circuses people actually willingly pay money to enjoy the spectacle of skill, agility, poise …
Read MoreIn a long and often bloody and tumultuous history of the Roman Empire, there are few periods like what has become known among scholars as the Crisis of the Third …
Read MoreIt’s a fact little remarked upon that in 1976 one current and one future leader of?their nation’s top intelligence agency both voted communist: KGB’s Yuri Andropov in the Soviet Politburo …
Read MoreThe current crop of Western leaders is failing to inspire the electorates much beyond their base. Is it just a coincidence, or do we live during particularly polarised and unsettled …
Read More(With apologies to former President Obama’s favourite rapper Jay-Z) The Victorian government, having solved all the important issues, like the breakdown of law and order, is now focusing on the …
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