Wong’s gruel of postcolonial guilt
No country has a spotless past. Countries such as Great Britain, that disengaged from their respective empires in the 20th …
Culture & Society Commentaries
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Annoy the Woke Left, Celebrate Australia Day
Americans are familiar with the woke left: noisy activists who feel the need to rewrite the nation’s history. But this …
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Celebrity slavery: Seeking reparations from Benedict Cumberbatch
Despite booting out the late Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state back in 2021, the Caribbean nation of …
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We must be more tolerant
The past year has been one of growing intolerance towards people of faith, with one of the loudest recent examples …
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Self-inflicted challenges hit West on four fronts
As 2022 draws to a close, most people will be glad to see the back of it. The post-Cold War …
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CIS 2022 Nanny State Awards
This year’s highly un-coveted Nanny State Award was a tight contest, with a horde of strong contenders from around the …
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Partisan games stir up the divided states of America
US midterm elections are always a vote of confidence in incumbents, and this year’s midterms are expected to inflict severe …
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Visit Victoria’s bailout of Netball Australia turns activism into a political move
The saga of Netball Australia’s initial failed partnership with Hancock Prospecting, and its subsequent replacement by a deal with the …
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Energy moralising denies reality of human progress
I received my Origin electricity account recently. No surprises — a big fat tariff — but the tagline ‘Good Energy’ …
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Corporate virtue-signalling is a dystopian reality the movies warned us about
When I was a teenager, my mates and I watched the Rollerball movie. In its dystopian world of the then-distant …