27 Nov2020

Oxford’s All Souls has shed its own by erasing Codrington name from library

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Today in The Australian

Having held out for many months, All Souls capitulated last week, erasing the name “Codrington” from its world-famous library.

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20 Nov2020

ABC blames France when jihadis murder its innocents

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Today in The Australian

Since the brutal assassination of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded on the street by an ­Islamist for showing his students a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, the ABC has distinguished itself by publishing one piece after the other that pins the blame for the French terrorist attacks not on the fanatics and their murderous ideology but — you guessed it — on France.



 

13 Nov2020

Public interest? ABC betrays its founding principles

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Today in The Australian

Much like the BBC, the ABC was formed, and its mission framed, on the basis of two beliefs that emerged from the trauma of the First World War.

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06 Nov2020

US election: Elusive virtues that would help nation heal these scars

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Today in The Australian

Many decades ago, in that fleeting parenthesis between the ravages of Marxism and those of the assault on Dead White Males, there raged in academia something of a great debate about Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War.

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30 Oct2020

As pillars of probity, ASIC pair should know better

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Today in The Australian
As pillars of probity, ASIC pair should know better

Whether Christine Holgate, the CEO of Australia Post, acted properly in distributing designer watches to the senior executives who had secured a major contract will be determined by the inquiries that are now under way. But whether she acted wisely is another question.

 

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23 Oct2020

Islam and the West: We must strike back or soon we’ll all be Samuel Paty

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Today in The Australian

Islam and the West: We must strike back or soon we’ll all be Samuel Paty

Samuel Paty, the French schoolteacher decapitated last Friday for showing his students a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, did not lose his life in a clash of civilisations; he lost it in a clash between civilisation and barbarism.

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