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This Authoritarian Government’s Education Bill Will Allow Local Authorities to Force Home Educated Children to Attend Their Own Failing Schools

This authoritarian Government's Education Bill will grant local authorities sweeping new powers to regulate home education and force home educated children to attend their own failing schools.

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Australians Stubbornly Refuse to Learn From History – and are Therefore Doomed to Repeat It

The catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic by incompetent politicians and bureaucrats was not an issue in the recent Australian election, which means all the mistakes will be repeated if there's another pandemic.

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How Accurate is Jacques Baud’s Analysis of the War in Ukraine?

Retired Swiss intelligence officer Jacques Baud is often cited as a reliable source about what's really going on in Ukraine. (Putin was provoked, the Ukrainian military is full of Nazis, etc.) But how reliable is he?

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Why Did Self-Described ‘Liberals’ Become Cheer Leaders for the Rise of Covid Totalitarianism?

Matthew Crawford explains in UnHerd why our highly educated, apparently rational, left-of-centre elites are so vulnerable to capture by quasi-religious cults, whether wokery pokery, climate hysteria, or Covidian 'science'.

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Western Hawks Ignore Risk of Nuclear War

Is foreign policy even crazier than public health? A few weeks ago, one "expert" with more than 100K followers said we should "eliminate nuclear Russia", adding "some nukes can explode, but they will explode anyway”.

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Covid in Australia – a Doctor’s Perspective

Despite clear evidence that major risk factors for adverse outcomes in Covid cases are obesity, low Vitamin D levels and diabetes, there has been a conspicuous lack of public health education from the health authorities.

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Russia’s Muted Response to Finland’s Interest in Joining NATO Suggests its Invasion of Ukraine Was Nothing to do With NATO Expansion

If Russia's invasion of Ukraine was prompted by NATO's eastward expansion, as some Putin apologists argue, why has the official reaction to Finland's NATO application been so muted?

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Italy Wears its Covid Scars Like a Badge of Honour

Italy, the country where the Western lockdown panic began, is still addicted to its masks and shows depressingly little interest in exploring what happened elsewhere to find out if it over-reacted.

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Our Ministers Didn’t “Do Okay” Against the Coronavirus

A recent article in the Times claims that our ministers "did their best" during the pandemic, since we finished in the middle of the Covid death table. But the article ignores Britain's dismal economic performance.

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WHO Estimates of India’s Covid Deaths Are Highly Suspect

The WHO claims India has missed 90% of its Covid deaths, attributing to the country nearly 5 million deaths, almost a third of the world total and 10 times the official count of 481,486. That is simply not credible.

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