April 12, 2013 – 11:25 pm
Downing Street has released the names of more guests who will attend Lady Thatcher’s funeral, including US politician Newt Gingrich and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Advertising magnate Lord Maurice Saatchi, internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee and singer Katherine Jenkins have also accepted invitations. The ceremony will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral in [...]
The death of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts, 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), the longest serving and most controversial British Prime Minister of the C20th, has and will let loose a storm of picking over the bones of her Premiership and legacy. I would caution against examinations that look at British economic statistics alone, [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, History, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, The Right
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Tagged Cold War, margaret thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Rubbery Figures, soviet union, Spitting Image, Terrorism, Winter of Discontent
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There is a joke in modern American politics–the Republicans want a big defence force they don’t want to use anywhere and the Democrats want a small defence force they want to use everywhere. Implicit in the joke is that the Republicans like military spending and the Democrats don’t. Because the right is “strong” on defence [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Britain, Defence, Economics, History, Politics, Public Policy, Taxation, The Right
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Tagged al gore, alliance building, Anglo-French Entente, Anglo-Japanese alliance, appeasement, British Liberal Party, Cold War, deficit, dreadnoughts, Edouard Daladier, estate taxes, fixed exchange rates, france, Franco-Russian alliance, Germany, grand strategy, Gulf War, High Seas Fleet, hitler, house of lords, Inflation, japan, John Kerry, Kevin Narizny, Korean War, Lebensraum, monetary policy, naval arms race, nazi germany, Paul Volcker, People's budget, Popular Front, President George W. Bush, re-armanent, Ronald Reagan, Second Reich, Spanish-American War, US democrats, US Federal Reserve, US republicans, Vietnam War, Weltpolitik, WWI, WWII
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February 19, 2013 – 9:15 am
In a his excellent The World Is Not Enough blog, Charles Richardson comments on an essay by Israeli journalist Yossi Gurvitz. Gurvitz’s essay applies the analogy of Germans expelled from the Sudetenland, Silesia, Prussia etc after 1945 to the Palestinians expelled from Israel in 1947-48. As Charles notes, it is a revealing analogy. But revealing not [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in History, Human/Civil rights, Immigration, Middle east, Politics, Public Policy, Religion, The Right
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Tagged Algerian Civil War, Arab Spring, Arab-Israeli conflict, Armenian Genocide, Auschwitz, Charles Richardson, Christian exodus, debt bondage, EU, Fascism, Greece, Haj Amin al Husseini, Hamidian massacres, Israel, Israeli Defence Force, Israeli Labour movement, Lebanese Civil War, Leninism, Likud, Nazism, population exchange, refugees, scapegoat, Shin Bet, Sudanese Civil Wars, Syrian civil war, the holocaust, Turkey, Yossi Gurvitz
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January 29, 2013 – 8:00 am
I have previously posted elsewhere about how similar the failures in indigenous policy and development (particularly foreign aid) policy have been. Remarkably similar, indeed. They also show some distinct similarities to the more unfortunate effects of welfare provision. (By ‘welfare provision’ I do not mean the aged pension or health or education services; I am talking [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Australia, Economics, England, History, Law, Personal liberty, Philosophy, Public Policy, The Right, Welfare
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Tagged afghanistan, ALP, Amerindians, Anglo-Saxon law, Arnhem land, Assizes, Australian Aborigines, canon law, china, cliodynamics, collectivisation, common law, Commonwealth Intervention, Curley effect, Danelaw, development policy, Earl Ferrers, Elinor Ostrom, farming, foragers, foreign aid, france, free riding, Glenn Reynolds, Henry II, House of Elders, house of lords, human capital, hunter-gatherers, Immigration, indigenous policy, iraq, japan, Jesse Helms, Lapps, magna carta, narcissism, Norman law, North American colonies, Peter Turchin, singapore, sit down money, Somaliland, Thomas Hobbes, time horizons, trial by jury, Vernon Smith
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October 10, 2012 – 3:18 pm
Radio personality Alan Jones has been in trouble again, this time because he made some insensitive comments about the recent death of the father of Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the Sydney University’s Liberal Club President’s Dinner. Jones suggested Gillard’s father ‘died of shame’ as a result of the lies his daughter had told the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australia, Free Speech, Immigration, Media, Politics, Society, The Right
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Tagged Alan Jones, Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, chaff bags, Cronulla riots, Feminism, Julia Gillard, misogyny, Peter Slipper, sexism, The Left, The Right, Tony Abbott
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October 3, 2012 – 12:00 am
New Labour bought into the right wing media’s portrayal of its union backers as “evil”, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has claimed. He said the party treated the unions as a “nutty relative” who had to be “kept at arm’s length”. But its current leadership were moving towards a better understanding of what the unions [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Fark!, Funnies, Philosophy, Politics, Public Policy
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Tagged doctor who, ed milliband, len mcclusky, matt smith, new labour, party funding, science fiction, the lonely assassins, the time of angels, UK labour party, uk labour party conference 2012, unite union, weeping angels doctor who
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Conservative philosopher-blogger Keith Burgess-Jackson had already predicted that, if Obama loses the November 2012 election, the Left will say it was because of race. Now some social science has popped up to support precisely such a claim. A study (pdf) has used racially-charged Google searches to estimate how much less Obama’s share of the popular vote [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Academia, Economics, History, Politics, Racism
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Tagged al gore, Andrew Sullivan, Bread and Peace model, Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Douglas Hibbs, Google, John Kerry, Keith Burgess-Jackson, president obama, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, US democratic party, US presidential election 2012, US republican party
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[SL recently discussed Christos Tsolkias' piece in her recent post on left-wing politics. At the end she said: Tsiolkas’s essay impressed me so much that I decided to review the book from which it comes, Left Turn, which is edited by two prominent lefties, Antony Loewenstein and Jeff Sparrow. But then I thought better of [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australia, Books, Economics, Feminism, Guest Post, Human/Civil rights, Media, Personal liberty, Philosophy, Politics, Society, The Right
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Tagged Adam Smith Institute, Antony Loewenstein, book review, Christos Tsiolkas, Dave Bath, Guest Post, Jeff Sparrow, Left Turn, Media, Politics, The Economist, The Left, The Right
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The other day, Pavlov’s Cat drew my attention to this piece on why bullies bully, particularly in schools. The tl;dr version? Telling kids that they’re all that produces narcissistic, entitled little monsters who think the world owes them a living. Contrary to the mythology, bullies have high self-esteem, not the opposite. Well well well (three [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Books, Literature, Personal liberty, Public Policy
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Tagged Andrew Bolt, Antony Loewenstein, Cassandra Wilkinson, Centre for Independent Studies, Christos Tsiolkas, Jeff Sparrow, Left Turn, SDA, Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association, Shoppies, sinclair davidson, Trade Unions
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