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Energy fog – trust your lying eyes
Attending an Anzac Day service, I only noticed the fog as it lifted and the sun emerged. In a similar…What to read next: Chris Bowen on the brink: energy cost blowouts and improbable Net Zero targets | Energy crisis: a call to professionals | The Covid vaccine is dead! Long live the Covid vaccine…?! | The heir of Orwell
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The Covid vaccine is dead! Long live the Covid vaccine ?!
Did you know that four years after the Great Covid Pandemonium erupted, vaccine mandates are still being enforced in the…What to read next: After the Thalidomide apology, where is the Covid vaccine apology? | Port Macquarie educator fired during Covid slams medical authoritarianism | The Covid show must go on! | Last of the Covid midwits
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The Spectator Australia
It took 1,084,170 words for JK Rowling to tell the story of Harry Potter. Spanning seven books and a decade,…What to read next: Australia does not need a policeman for a police state | Oh no, don’t meme me! | How not to play warcraft | Other options for the economy?
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How America plunders Britain’s tech economy
The UK government tells a confident story about Britain’s tech business acumen. In one 2023 example, a press release from…What to read next: Dear Britain, please take Prince Harry back | Britain doesn’t need an Iron Dome | Liverpool is trashing its maritime history | Tory MP Dan Poulter defects to Labour
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Liverpool is trashing its maritime history
Three subjects are branded onto the Liverpool psyche: football, music and seafaring. While the first two remain in rude health,…What to read next: Anti-colonialism and the distortion of history | Tory MP Dan Poulter defects to Labour | Uncharted territory in court and on campus | Taylor Swift is a rotter
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Trinity College Cambridge has rushed to judgement on Captain Cook
Cambridge has made a mistake in returning to the tribe that made them some spears collected by Captain Cook’s men…What to read next: How America plunders Britain’s tech economy | Liverpool is trashing its maritime history | Who asked France’s celebrities for political advice? | The monstrous experience of surviving boarding school
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The monstrous experience of surviving boarding school
Charles, Earl Spencer published a blistering denunciation of his prep school days – complete with constant corporal punishment and child…What to read next: How was ITV’s trans drama Butterfly ever made? | How America plunders Britain’s tech economy | Liverpool is trashing its maritime history | Who asked France’s celebrities for political advice?
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Who asked France’s celebrities for political advice?
Since 2012, the French actor Omar Sy has lived in Los Angeles. One of his houses has included a sprawling…What to read next: A tide of Euroscepticism is sweeping France | France and Britain have both shamefully neglected the white working class | Will under-13 curfews really make France safer? | Have Londoners forgotten how to stand up to anti-Semites?
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The Spectator Australia
Leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, is terrified of memes. Specifically, Winnie-the-Pooh. Since July 2017, the harmless bear has…What to read next: How not to play warcraft | Other options for the economy? | The Liberals, coal, and nuclear power | The war on misinformation is a sham
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How not to play warcraft
The Australian Labor Party has drifted a long way from its roots and is now more about the welfare of…What to read next: Other options for the economy? | The Liberals, coal, and nuclear power | The war on misinformation is a sham | Net Zero by 2050: fantasy, or eco-imperial impoverishment?
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Other options for the economy?
In the UK, inflation figures were stated to have been disappointing, with CPI falling down from 3.4 per cent to 3.2 instead…What to read next: The problem with Japan’s economy | Stopping the inflation contagion | The Liberals, coal, and nuclear power | The war on misinformation is a sham
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Whisper it, but Rishi Sunak has had a good week
If you have been doing as badly as Rishi Sunak has as prime minister, then it doesn’t take much to…What to read next: Why did it take Rishi Sunak so long to up defence spending? | Rishi Sunak vows to boost defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP | Sunak’s bungled Rwanda scheme won’t save him | Even GB News viewers prefer Starmer to Sunak