Today in The Australian

The silence that has greeted the former US president’s description of Nicolas Sarkozy in his book reflects the normalisation of casual anti-Semitism on the ‘progressive’ side of politics.

The words leap out and grab you. After all, in countless pages of prose, no other world leader is characterised by Barack Obama in anything like those terms.

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Why casual bigotry of Obama’s 'Jew' slur about Sarkozy must be called out_Fri 18

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Today in The Australian

When the Black Death reached Europe and the Mediterranean in 1346-47, Egypt and England were roughly comparable economies, with similar populations and income levels.

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As so often happens with mass production, the quality of China’s lies has plummeted as their number has increased. However, the purpose of its latest outrage was not so much to deceive as to humiliate.

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Calculated show of contempt by China_Fri 4 Dec 2020.pdf

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Today in The Australian

Having held out for many months, All Souls capitulated last week, erasing the name “Codrington” from its world-famous library.

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Oxfords All Souls has shed its own by erasing Codrington name from library_Fri 2

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Since the brutal assassination of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded on the street by an ­Islamist for showing his students a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, the ABC has distinguished itself by publishing one piece after the other that pins the blame for the French terrorist attacks not on the fanatics and their murderous ideology but — you guessed it — on France.

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ABC blames France when jihadis murder its innocents_Fri 20 Nov 2020.pdf

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Today in The Australian

Much like the BBC, the ABC was formed, and its mission framed, on the basis of two beliefs that emerged from the trauma of the First World War.

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Public interest_ABC betrays its founding principles_Fri 13 Nov 2020.pdf

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