Helen Dale
Australian literature's lone classical liberal. Hack lawyer. Miles Franklin Award winner. 'Kingdom of the Wicked' out now. R/T ≠ endorsement. 🏳️🌈
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#TROLLINGTHEGUARDIAN: The Guardian is censoring satirists
A popular parody account has been suspended from Twitter following outrage by one of the largest media outlets in the world, The Guardian.
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Helen Dale
It would appear a particular outlet can’t take a joke
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Guardian Meme Generator
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Helen Dale
Go here, and you, too, can make headlines like this: guardianmeme.win pic.twitter.com/kF9yqaZCMD
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Daniel Hannan - Europe at a Crossroads Conference
British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan's conversation with John O'Sullivan at the Europe at a Crossroads Conference - May 13, 2019.
Loud explosion heard over London was two RAF jets on emergency alert
A loud bang heard in the early hours of Sunday in London and south east England was caused by two RAF jets scrambled after communications was lost with an aircraft in UK airspace. A sound similar to an explosion at around 4.20am led to Hertfordshire...
Who leads in our poll tracker?
The Britain Elects poll tracker is an aggregate of what all the polling firms are finding so as to cut through the noise and give a clear indication of where public opinion stands.
Our linear moving average trackers are weighted to reduce...
How Boris will save social democracy
The Tory party is going through one of its great evolutionary shifts
Black Friday is racist
Calling the event ‘Black Friday’ is racist. Calling it ‘White Friday’ is also racist. Either way I choose to boycott the whole charade
Australian broadcaster Clive James dies at 80
The critic, author, poet and TV host was known for his witty commentary on international television.
Watch the full Andrew Neil interview with Jeremy Corbyn
Helen Dale
The Conservatives are playing the entire Corbyn interview, unedited, on the party’s Facebook page.
Boris'll have to spend half an hour making fart noises with his fist shoved in his armpit every time Neil asks a question for Labour to return the favour.
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Everything we do with tax is wrong
Our hugely complicated tax system only makes inequality worse
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Helen Dale
Want to fix inequality? First, fix your tax system.
Very thoughtful (and readable!) @DominicFrisby piece on tax reform in @unherd.
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A Tour of Fishbourne Roman Palace
In 1960, a man was laying a waterpipe underneath the quaint village of Fishbourne near Chichester, West Sussex, when he uncovered what looked like Roman remains. After he duly reported the discover, the archaeologists were called in and they quickly...
Albertans may love oil, but they hate rats
The province of Alberta has been entirely rat-free for almost 70 years.
Helen Dale
Second delicious factlet for the day: the Canadian province of Alberta has been entirely rat-free for almost 70 years.
I didn't think that was possible.
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Identity Rules, Group Rights and the Promise of Liberalism
In nineteenth-century Japan, the Shogunate came under pressure from Western powers. One point of tension was religious freedom. Christianity had been illegal in Japan for centuries. But, with the o…
PM started a race to the bottom
In 1851, historian Thomas Babington Macaulay made an observation that held true for 160 years, and arguably still holds true.
Helen Dale
Once again people in Australia are picking my brains from afar. They forget that I have already stated my views on the Hanson-Young v. Leyonhjelm defamation matter, in the pages of a national...
Helen Dale
Ah, politics. Once again people in Australia are picking my brains from afar on the David Leyonhjelm defamation matter. I wrote a feature on it last year for @australian, and my views have not changed.
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Koalas are not functionally extinct, but they need our help
Reports abound Australia's bushfires have pushed the cuddly, grey marsupial to the brink but scientists have raised questions.
'I've cleared my diary': Senior bureaucrats scrambled to act on PM's toilet door demands
More than 67 pages of mostly-redacted correspondence show Scott Morrison's opposition to unisex bathrooms caused a flurry.
Joe Hildebrand: Australia’s dirty political secret
This is a story about the middle of last week. And it starts in the mid-1980s.
Migrant Intake into Australia
A public inquiry into the greater use of charges relative to quotas and qualitative criteria to determine the intake of temporary and permanent entrants into Australia.
Helen Dale
For my next explainer, think I’ll focus on the Australian points-based immigration system, the name of which is being taken in vain by quite a lot of people here right now. I had a hand in this report, but because of its length, people won’t read it
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