Conservatives and libertarians often moan about the ‘nanny state’ when it impinges on something they would like to do; smoke indoors, drink to excess, ride bikes without a helmet, driving…
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There is a misapprehension in the wider world, spread by advertising that businesses are there to serve the general populace (‘service is our middle name’, ‘we are here to help’…
The recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) national accounts for the March Quarter have shown that real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by a pathetic 0.3% during that quarter and…
Just after midnight, on the morning of June 19, a van ran down several people just outside the Finsbury Park Mosque. After initial uncertainty as to whether it was an…
The big losers out of Emmanuel Macron’s significant changing of the guard in the French parliamentary elections have been the Socialists, who lost a whopping 250 seats, ending up with…
You will often hear some members of parliament state that the science of global warming is not settled, or there is some doubt as to whether it is happening at…
Researchers from the Australian National University and Monash University have determined that listening to music decreased inattentional blindness1. Inattentional blindness is also known as perceptual blindness, and is a psychological…
Malcolm Turnbull has called on new citizens “to join us as Australian patriots” and that they should be “committed to the values that define us, committed to the values that…
The annual Southern Baptist Convention just took place in Phoenix, Arizona, earlier this week. Now, despite the Southern Baptist denomination being founded explicitly to support slavery1, it seems to have…