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3 weeks ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Anthony Daniels |Roger Franklin |Christopher Jolliffe |John O’Sullivan
The revered architect promoted the idea of razing much of Paris to modernise it. Hitler would have heartily approvedMar 31 20257 minsEuropeans worry Trump is an unreliable ally and, allowing he doesn't somehow end the Ukraine war, who can blame them? Mar 31 20259 minsThe problem with Anzac Day is that it is the legacy of a world that most postmodern people don’t believe has any valueMar 31 20258 minsNot being a systematic thinker, my reading is desultory: or perhaps it is the other way round.
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3 weeks ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Franklin |Anthony Daniels |Christopher Jolliffe |John O’Sullivan
The revered architect promoted the idea of razing much of Paris to modernise it. Hitler would have heartily approvedMar 31 20257 minsEuropeans worry Trump is an unreliable ally and, allowing he doesn't somehow end the Ukraine war, who can blame them? Mar 31 20259 minsThe problem with Anzac Day is that it is the legacy of a world that most postmodern people don’t believe has any valueMar 31 20258 minsIt’s easy to understand the case for peace talks with the Kremlin over the Russo-Ukraine war.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Mervyn F. Bendle |Joe Dolce |John Dawson |Christopher Jolliffe
The Left's packaging of inter-related ideas is framed as ‘critical thinking’ – an oxymoron if ever there was oneFeb 27 202520 minsNeville Shute imagined the end of the world 68 years ago, spawning a novel, a movie and a remake.
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Christopher Jolliffe |Tony Thomas |Phil Shannon |Alison Bevege
Nothing is a bigger blow to the heart of a society than individual relativismJan 29 20258 minsWhen Gaza's terrorists say Israel has killed tens of thousands of women, children and 'innocent civilians', the national broadcaster treats it as gospelJan 28 202513 minsPassing the test required for naturalisation is a piece of cake, yet one in three applicants fail.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Rafe Champion |Peter O'Brien |Anthony O Hear |Christopher Jolliffe
When white writers and artists joined black intellectuals to burn the white race in effigy, he saw not a protest but a cultural suicide pactDec 01 202410 minsThe Greens provocateur slags the late Queen and Pauline Hanson responds in kind.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Franklin |Anthony O Hear |Christopher Jolliffe |Paul E. Morrissey
"Officially in New Zealand it was 'Girls can do anything year'. I was asked to make the boys in my story into girls"Nov 30 202433 minsne of the most famous films of my youth was […]Nov 30 202424 minsIt would be a terrible irony if the information revolution winds up forging a new set of shacklesNov 30 202418 minsOne of the most famous films of my youth was Lawrence of Arabia, which I actually saw in France in 1964.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Christopher Jolliffe
It is no secret that our education system has been fast plummeting for twenty years or longer. We regularly produce illiterate and innumerate graduates after thirteen years of expensive compulsory schooling, for whom the primary lessons have been how to manipulate vulnerable systems, how to bend themselves to a certain schema of thinking, and how to jump through bureaucratic hoops.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Christopher Jolliffe
Whenever a commentator – especially a politician – begins to wax lyrical about cutting immigration for economic reasons, I become sceptical. One must assume they’d be all in favour of giving the country away provided the process was profitable. On the other hand, they are likely too cowardly to openly discuss the real reasons for their scepticism out of fear of being called names.
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May 12, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Christopher Jolliffe
Recently, a small miniature company in the UK, Games Workshop, announced a change to its longstanding lore. I won’t get into the details; it is enough to say that this went along the usual lines of enhancing diversity, inclusion, and equity, at the expense of the qualities that had made that fictional universe popular to begin with.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Christopher Jolliffe
All art is political, said Orwell. To say otherwise is a political statement. In a time of mass society and mass culture – and amidst 200 years of varying revolutionary sentiment – it’s hard to argue he was wrong. But it would be better had he not said the thing.
