What Shakespeare can teach us about cancel culture

Douglas Murray World Douglas Murray 17 October 2023 7:30 AM The following is an edited excerpt from Douglas Murray’s lecture at the Sheldonian Theatre earlier tonight, in honour of Sir Roger Scruton. It features the actor Kevin Spacey reciting a scene from William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. By the last year of his life Roger hadContinue reading “What Shakespeare can teach us about cancel culture”

Welcome to Miliband country: how Labour would wreck rural life

The manifestos of a potential ‘progressive alliance’ pose a profound threat to the countryside Melissa Kite (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty) Melissa Kite 2 May 2015 9:00 AM Imagine rural England five years into a Labour government led by Ed Miliband, and propped up by the SNP and perhaps also the Greens. If you can’t imagine, letContinue reading “Welcome to Miliband country: how Labour would wreck rural life”

Train wreck: HS2 destroyed the countryside I love

The countryside where I grew up has been destroyed by HS2 Melissa Kite Features Melissa Kite 7 October 2023 9:00 AM When I drive to see my parents in the once-peaceful farming country where I grew up, it is a strange, bittersweet experience. The car journey takes me through places I ought to recognise butContinue reading “Train wreck: HS2 destroyed the countryside I love”

‘That’s Just What Hyenas Do’

Peter Smith Frequent contributor The Voice is one of the defining issues of our age. What was — I hope my tense proves right later tonight — contemplated was the insertion of racial discrimination into Australia’s founding document. You can argue that it’s not race but heritage. Okay, have your way. It’s discrimination between oneContinue reading “‘That’s Just What Hyenas Do’”

Capital City Elites Against the Nation

The ruling class is on the wrong side Michael Darby  The count continues and, there is no reason to expect any signifiant change to the proportions displayed above. The Scourge of the Capital City Elites The nineteen out of twenty Australians who live neither in the Australian Capital Territory, nor in the same electorate asContinue reading “Capital City Elites Against the Nation”

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.— Benjamin Franklin

.WEF ‘de-banking’ agenda in full force in AustraliaNation First looks at the emergence of de-banking policies with one of the Big 4 banks in Australia.George ChristensenSep 18 READ IN APP Dear friend,The new look http://www.EurekaFreePress.com — your pro-freedom news source — will launch soon!Eureka Free Press will be migrating to Substack but will remain a free newsContinue reading “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.— Benjamin Franklin”

Hamas is in Australia

Lily Steiner Flat White Getty Images Lily Steiner 11 October 2023 1:26 AM The pro-Palestinian celebration in Sydney showed clearly that Hamas is alive and well in Australia. This was a celebration of the barbaric and inhuman behaviour of their brothers in Israel. Killing 260 young people at a music festival, kidnapping hundreds to spiritContinue reading “Hamas is in Australia”

We saw the darkness coming

The Spectator Australia Leading article Australia The Spectator Australia 14 October 2023 9:00 AM Exactly two years and eleven months ago the cover of this magazine warned that the election the week before of Joe Biden as President of the United States spelled war for the Middle East. ‘Peace nixed – the Middle East willContinue reading “We saw the darkness coming”

Why aren’t ‘anti-fascists’ condemning the tide of anti-Semitism?

Brendan O’Neill World Palestine supporters ignite flares during a rally outside the Sydney Opera House (Credit: Getty images) Brendan O’Neill 11 October 2023 1:10 AM I have a question about the events of the past few days: where is Antifa? Where are those self-styled anti-fascists who love to rage against anything that is even vaguelyContinue reading “Why aren’t ‘anti-fascists’ condemning the tide of anti-Semitism?”

COVID

The Curious Tale of Hydroxychloroquine Robert Clancy The author is Emeritus Professor of Pathology at the University of Newcastle Medical School. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Science’s COVID-19 Expert Database The discipline of medicine has changed. Its traditional cohesion and leadership have fractured into multiple disconnected specialty groups, allowing powerful commercialContinue reading “COVID”

If this space study is right, humans have never left Earth’s atmosphere

Science Feb 28, 2019 6:06 PM EDT The Earth’s atmosphere is described as a fragile coat wrapping around the planet, comparable in scale to an apple’s skin protecting the fruit. For more than half a century, even before the Apollo 16 mission captured the first ultraviolet images of Earth, researchers knew that the outermost atmosphericContinue reading “If this space study is right, humans have never left Earth’s atmosphere”

Put “Q” aside for now, Bannon & MAGA are in open warfare with a plan

Date: October 4, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 11 Comments By TONY MOBILIFONITIS IT may well be that Trump is involved in an irregular warfare operation against the Deep State, but former Trump chief strategist and ex-US Navy Lieutenant Steve Bannon and his MAGA circle do not throw out tricky Q-style riddles when talking about their battleContinue reading “Put “Q” aside for now, Bannon & MAGA are in open warfare with a plan”

Fuel for thought: Why petrol is (much) cheaper in the regions and even in the bush

Statewide It’s hard to believe until you look at the giant illuminated numbers on the sign out front – for possibly the first time in history regional Queenslanders are paying less for petrol than their city cousins. Greg Hallam investigatesGreg Hallam Print article Well, stone the crows, our country cousins have repeatedly enjoyed cheaper petrolContinue reading “Fuel for thought: Why petrol is (much) cheaper in the regions and even in the bush”

The endless myth of British decline

Robert Tombs World (Image: Getty) Robert Tombs 1 October 2023 5:30 PM The former governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently compared the British economy with that of Argentina. This was typical of those Remainers who cannot imagine that a country ignoring them could possibly succeed, and who often seem to will itContinue reading “The endless myth of British decline”

‘Quid pro quo’: Fight erupts between Qantas and Senator Bridget McKenzie over airline’s support of Voice to Parliament

Qantas was blasted for its “disrespect” during a fiery Senate hearing, which saw the airline repeatedly dodge questions about its support for ‘Yes23’ campaign in the upcoming Voice to Parliament referendum. Amy LandseyDigital Reporter A heated fight erupted between Qantas bosses and Senator Bridget McKenzie over the airline’s support for the Yes23 campaign in theContinue reading “‘Quid pro quo’: Fight erupts between Qantas and Senator Bridget McKenzie over airline’s support of Voice to Parliament”

Thousands of Australian books have been found on a pirated dataset of ebooks, known as Books3, used to train generative AI. Richard Flanagan, Helen Garner, Tim Winton and Tim Flannery are among the leading local authors affected – along, of course, with writers from around the world.

A search tool published by the Atlantic makes it possible for authors to find out whether their books are among the nearly 200,000 in the Books3 dataset. Many of these writers have reacted angrily about their works being included in these datasets without their knowledge or consent. Flanagan told the Guardian, “I felt as ifContinue reading “Thousands of Australian books have been found on a pirated dataset of ebooks, known as Books3, used to train generative AI. Richard Flanagan, Helen Garner, Tim Winton and Tim Flannery are among the leading local authors affected – along, of course, with writers from around the world.”

Kiwi Labor Party faces bloodbath as return of Winston Peters raises hopes of genuine opposition force

Date: September 29, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 0 Comments By TONY MOBILIFONITIS NEW Zealand’s Labor Party has plunged in the pre-election polling, heading for the mid to lower 20s in percentage support and a wipeout at the October 14th election as the country wakes up to the reality of economic strangulation by Jacinda Ardern’s globalists. TheContinue reading “Kiwi Labor Party faces bloodbath as return of Winston Peters raises hopes of genuine opposition force”