My wife likes to say that I always think I am right, which she appears to find irritating. My response is always, of course I think I am right. Everybody thinks they are right. If I thought I was wro… (View Post)

I'm sorry, you are just wrong. (View Post)

Yes. I think the first point is the main one. Democracies tend to veer into fascism in the absence of periodic reminders that this is not a great idea. The Nazi era inoculation has worn off. (View Post)

And yet Australia is not exactly a bastion of wokeness that is crying out for a correction. In my opinion the rise of the far right is really driven by two fundamental factors. The first is passage o… (View Post)

They are not serious parties and so they will always struggle to attract serious candidates. Sure, you can fork out cash to weed put the utter loons and dross, but the risk then is that then you have… (View Post)