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By popular demand we are releasing last month's Patreon bonus episode on the main feed! We chart the transformation of the lab leak from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by liberal journalists.Where to find us: Peter's newsletterPeter's other ...

"Watchmen," and what happens when a work designed to upturn cliches becomes one.

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Liberal MPs reveal how the former prime minister and his close confidante have been at the centre of a string of disastrous decisions that led to the party’s stunning election loss and the collapse of the Coalition.

Some of Australia's largest IVF clinics have passed inaccurate information about children born from sperm donations to their male donors.

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di Jock Gardiner1. Within a week of each other, Australia and Canada held federal elections that produced remarkably similar results: the incumbent parties of the centre-left winning power; their Trump-curious conservative opponents not only losing the elections, but also seeing their leaders lose their parliamentary seats. In what has been a pretty gloomy period for this Blog’s European audience – the electoral situation in Romania, recent Reform wins in UK local elections...

The dream of saving for a deposit on a house is now so far beyond most poeple that even if you have a high paying job, you still can never save enough.