Culture & State
Government funded culture is the new state church. I like to talk about this, analyse the messages we are getting from cultural elites and ask questions, uncomfortable questions.
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Welcome to the Technocracy (opens the original)
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Defending Girls from Porn. (opens the original)
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The Equity Panopticon (opens the original)
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Letter to the Editor Gold Coast Bulletin (opens the original)
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Today I wrote a letter of complaint to the Gold Coast Bulletin about an article by Ann Wason Moore entitied “Southport Uniting Church’s bathroom sign welcoming all genders divides opinion”. It is a truly terrible and dumb article that you can read for yourself if you have too many brain cells or you want to go back to arguments that were around in 2015 the archive link is here. And here is my complaint. Culture &am
On Annie Kenney (opens the original)
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So many historic books are available free online. I was recently browsing through “The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement 1905-1910” by E. Sylvia Pankhurst and came across this beautifully written description of how the now-famous working-class suffragette Annie Kenney was brought into the militant suffrage movement (extract copied below). Kenney the militant feminist, was formed from a millworker, like so many feminists, by oppression, by observation of inequalit
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