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Democracy & Civil Society
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Very Superstitious, Writing’s on the Wall
A man claiming to have killed 110 child ‘witches’ has been arrested by police in south-east Nigeria. After his arrest…
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Everyone Else is Palin’ in Comparison
Even though the US Presidential Election is just around the corner, I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to…
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Long Live the King of Thailand
There’s an Australian blogger/writer, Harry Nicolaides, being held in a Thai prison for slandering the Thai Royal Family. The crime…
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World Watch: A Clear Power Shift
The standings in the medal tallies at the end of the Beijing Olympics were China, the United States and Russia,…
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Did God make Adam and Steve and Gladys and Eve?
A couple of weeks ago, one of our readers emailed me with a ‘curly topic‘ that they thought I might…
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George Bush Cartoon
I found this cartoon in this week’s print edition of the economist – and had to share it with you…
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Garry Kaspar’s Flying Penis
I came across this last week (no pun intended) and thought it was worth sharing: Russian chess-grandmaster-turned-politician Garry Kasparov had…
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Taxing the Night Away
I’m sure that Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan’s heart is in the right place. He thinks a 7o% increase in the…
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A picture tells a thousand words, but which ones?
Religion and Politics – will we ever be able to separate the two? I just got sent this picture and…