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Lady Wellington - January 28, 2020 9:00 pm

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January 28, 2020 8:58 pm

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January 28, 2020 8:30 pm

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January 28, 2020 8:00 pm

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January 28, 2020 7:30 pm

Australia’s ‘Record Temperatures’: Why You Should Be Sceptical

Lushington D. Brady - January 28, 2020 9:15 am

[...] Consider this analogy: you are tasked with measuring different lengths of timber. You start with a piece of string, stretching it from one end to another, and then measuring it off against a ruler. Then you swap to an old ruler with Imperial measurements. Later, you graduate to a metric ruler, but it only marks off at 5mm intervals. Finally, you make the last measurements with a high-grade steel ruler marked off at half-millimetre increments.

Harry, Meghan and the Royal Family’s Lost Opportunity.

Chris Trotter - January 27, 2020 9:15 am

[...] The British people have good reason to thank the British aristocracy for their shrewdness in the marriage market. Had Randolph Churchill not recovered his family’s fortunes by marrying the American heiress, Jennie Jerome, there would have been no Winston Churchill to give the British Empire its “finest hour”.

What Does Underfunded Even Mean?

Stephen Berry - January 24, 2020 9:15 am

[...]“Underfunded!” is the single most overused criticism by patients, excuse by the DHBs or attack by politicians. Whoever utters it, for whatever reason, is wrong because nobody can objectively measure or define what ‘under-funded’ means. In order to do that, they must present what fully funded is and nobody ever has.

French Author Renaud Camus Convicted for Inciting Racial Hatred

Olivia Pierson - January 23, 2020 9:15 am

[...] Camus, who is decidedly against all forms of violence, has been punished for criticising immigration. There is no longer any commitment to freedom of speech in France. The nation is subject to such intrusive hate speech laws that to speak one’s mind about anything pertaining to humans is dangerous [...]

Sir Roger Scruton, 1944-2020

Lushington D. Brady - January 21, 2020 9:15 am

[...] More than just a conservative intellectual, Sir Roger Scruton was a constant champion of Western civilisation, and of the value of beauty and aesthetics in an increasingly philistine age. In the years to come, we are going to need his like more than ever