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Sweden takes the big coronavirus risk for none of the economic gain
If we’ve learnt anything about the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that history may not repeat but it does have a habit of popping its …
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Who’s next in line to lead DPRK?
North Korea’s Supreme Leader, 36-year-old Kim Jong-un, is reported to be clinging to life after undergoing cardiovascular surgery. And people say there’s no good news in …
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Assange is not the messiah, but Wikileaks is a cult
It popped up in my in box yesterday. One of those tiresome exhortations to sign a petition. This one had already been signed by …
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Trolled by narcissists
If the dreadful attacks on Christchurch taught us anything, it is that there is a global pandemic of destructive narcissism, anti-social personality disorder and …
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Let Milo Yiannopoulos into the country
I wish there was a better character around than Milo Yiannopoulos whose rights to free expression I could defend. But that’s the way it …
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The real Trump derangement syndrome
Trump derangement syndrome was said to be a disorder found among those who see consistent fault in the words and deeds of the 45th …
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TV news ain’t news.
Many years ago, an acquaintance of mine opined that the reality program, Survivor, was the best television show ever made. I didn’t share her …
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Foreign interference bills won’t stop China donations
Shhh. Don’t mention the Chinese. Malcolm may have done so once or twice but I think he got away with it. This week the …
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From Roseanne to Hanson, a real week of idiocy
Without getting in to the ghastly post-surgery details, I have been sitting and watching the world from behind closed doors with my new bladder, …
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Will this be the end of the Adolf Hitler conspiracy theories?
Adolf Hitler is dead. That’s not really news but in the news this week, a group of French forensic pathologists led by Professor Philippe …