Australian aged care is in crisis It’s hunting season on Australia’s aged care providers. After numerous complaints of abuse and undercover media investigations, the Federal Government formed a Royal Commission to investigate the quality and delivery of aged care. Some of the stories emerging at public hearings have been sickening. Earlier this week, the distressed […]
Ironically for a country that defeated Hitler, it was Britain that gave birth to Hitler’s malign influences, Malthusianism and eugenics. Under these influences the Great War was seen as a racial disaster; eugenicists saw the European races killing each other, to the benefit of the ‘lesser races’.
Former Brazilian president Lula’s release from jail last week shows how the establishment seems to always find a way, no matter how serious the consequences for society might be, to protect their favourites.
Watching the British Labour Party general election campaign has been, on the whole, a depressing affair. The Party has taken a momentous decision, on Brexit, to enter a General Election with a promise to have no fixed policy at all, and to make up its mind later. It decided at its annual conference six weeks […]
This week, police in Hong Kong increased their brutal and often violent treatment of pro-democracy protesters. Yet this is what Sky News reported. And CNBC And Al Jazeera Carrie Lam is the chief executive of Hong Kong and a tool of the repressive Chinese government, who have abused the human rights […]
As we discussed last week, the challenge of a declining Russia is one of the stories of the 21st geopolitical century. But directly to Russia’s west is another area of the world that is suffering demographic decline: East and Central Europe. Many of these countries’ demographic woes we have discussed before, but we have not really […]
25-year-old New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick has won fame on social media after this week dismissing an elderly Parliamentary heckler with the ‘viral quip, “OK boomer’”; the derogatory expression, ‘which refers to the baby-boomer generation’, has ‘gained popularity among young people on social media in recent months as a way of brushing off the views […]
If you lived through it, you’d have to have been an apathetic stoic with no soul, not to shed a tear at the sight of East Germans flooding into West Berlin on the night of November 9th, 1989. As a (half) native German, it was pivotal moment in my motherland’s history and one I remember […]
Former President Barack Obama last week launched a scathing attack, during an interview on youth activism, on the smug, judgmental attitude of people under the spell of “woke” culture. Obama was responding to the increasing trend of using social media to express outrage, disgust, and moral disapproval toward language and behaviour that is not politically […]
A 29-year old man, who is wheel-chair bound, has had charges dropped against him after being arrested for publicly praying at an abortion clinic. Christian Hacking became the first person arrested by UK police for praying in public. Police bodycam footage shows officers accosting Christian Hacking after he was spotted praying quietly on the grass […]
Jurisdictions which permit assisted suicide or euthanasia suck all the oxygen out of media coverage of this topic. To put the issue in perspective, assisted suicide or euthanasia is only legal in Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and a handful of American states. Nearly everywhere else, doctors have repudiated it. As a reminder of this, the […]
The links between pornography and human trafficking have long been established, but rarely have the connections been so horribly apparent as in a recent story reported on earlier this month by Newsweek. The mother of a 15-year-old girl from South Florida who had been missing for almost a year discovered that her daughter was still alive when […]