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Congratulations to the British Free Speech Union
This is the summary report of the activities of the FSU in 2022. Congratulations to Toby Young and his colleagues. BTW Toby has a regular column in The Spectator.
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Blackouts – the new normal?
Early in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith watched his fellow citizens react to an announcement that the government was “raising” their chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. Winston remembered the announcement from the previous day, however: the government was reducing the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. He marveled as everyone all celebrated what…
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The modern slave trade
From the transcript People need to know about this… Never throughout the history of slavery has there been more suffering that generated more profit that was linked to the lives of more people around the world… Preview YouTube video The Disturbing Reality of Cobalt Mining for Rechargeable Batteries Who are the modern slave traders? When…
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Offshore Wind.
From The Guardian: Australia’s first offshore windfarm zone … will be on Victoria’s Gippsland coast, which environmental advocates have labelled a game-changer. “It is one of the most significant wind resources anywhere in the world,”the premier, Daniel Andrews, said, referring to powerful winds from the Bass Strait. The projects are expected to support more than…
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Genital cutting
Not my favourite topic but someone had to say it. While there is animated discussion about the mutilation of girls who have been persuaded that they want to be boys there is another kind of female mutilation that has been under the radar for some time. What is going on? I don’t have time to…
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Rafe’s Roundup 19 Dec
Roundup of Partners and Fellow-Travellers Drop in and see what they are up to! The Energy Realists of Australia Jo Nova Quadrant on line IPA Climate and energy program CIS The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre Mannkal Economics Education Foundation Advance Australia Taxpayers Alliance Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Vagabond The Rathouse and The Site of…
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Meet the classical liberal vagabond
There is a quiet achiever on the liberal/conservative scene, the indefatigable and mercurial Dara Macdonald. Thinker. Writer. Reader. Freedom enthusiast. Conservative Vagabond. Cocktail maker. Lawyer. Dara Macdonald is an Australian lawyer and founder. Dara has worked as in-house legal counsel for various national and multinational companies. Last year she took up a year-long research position with Australia’s…
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Roundup 4 Dec
Roundup of Partners and Fellow-Travellers Drop in and see what they are up to! IPA Climate and energy program CIS The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre Mannkal Economics Education Foundation Advance Australia Taxpayers Alliance Australian Institute for Progress Save these dates 15 December at 6.0 Sydney time. Menzies Research Institute webinar forum for representatives of rural communities…
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Support The Voice
Enshrine racism in the Constitution Karl Popper defended equalitarian justice by which he meant equality before non-discriminatory laws and an equal distribution of the limitations on freedom that are required for a functional society. Traditional or individualistic justice, as described by Popper in his critique of Plato, “calls for equal treatment of the citizens before…
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Roundup 25 Nov
The New Energy Narrative It’s Time for a new narrative, a new Energy Story. The game has changed, not officially and not among the True Believers but every month it will get clearer to anyone who bothers to check. We are in damage control. The exit from coal, gas and oil has just about run…