Pub Politics and Pale Ale Realism
When two barflies of opposing political worldviews agree, you know the system’s broken.
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
Cancel culture or creative culture, they both count in shaping our society. One for the better and one for the worse.
If you ever doubted that politicians get dangerously drunk on power, the following tale may give you cause to rethink your views.
Investment bubbles burst when least expected while the booms can last much, much longer than anyone thinks.
Ray Dalio is one of the world's foremost investors and is worth listening to. Especially when stock markets are powered by easy money and boredom.
Two ministers have clearly crumbled under public pressure. The circumstances are very different and one of them has to go.
History is filled with spruikers of free energy machines. The current green energy lobby are just another version of the grifters of yesteryear.
We are finally seeing some of the next generation push back against cancel culture. They have learned that mob rule is mindless.
Lunar New Year is as good a time as any to commend your friends and threaten your enemies, all in the spirit of festive goodwill of course.
The more I look at Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd these days, the more I think that ancient Greeks were right: the afterlife is where the weak and witless souls of the dead wonder around aimlessly mourning their earthly lives
We live in an amazing country but it seems we are abandoning many of the things that make it so.
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