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How the Leadbeater bill will protect you, assuming you have a 6-month prognosis:

In the redistributed ridings, MPs weren't even allowed to use their new titles or introduce themselves as the candidate in the new riding (as per Elections Canada), yet somehow Liberal Terry Sheehan - as a regular MP - was handing out 💰in the riding he would soon be running in?

I’m not at all one to think that credentialed academics have a monopoly on authentic knowledge (I’ve met too many of them). It doesn’t follow, however, that autodidacts are necessarily Speaking Deep Truths that have been suppressed by the elites. The American populist right has a

1/4 When you host a YouTube live event on the topic of "Physician-Assisted Suicide,' the feed gets cut for 'violating community standards.' Probably an algorithm was responsible. Live YouTube events on 'Medical Aid in Dying' are not disturbed by the algorithm.

Bold to admit you've never watched a House of Commons session before today.

“In order to favor liberty, the English have removed all the intermediate powers that formed their monarchy. They are quite right to preserve that liberty; if they were to lose it, they would be one of the most enslaved peoples on earth.” - Montesquieu

This is delicious from Tim Stanley ranks alongside Yuan Yi Zhu's works. Merciless and hilarious! (And also, what did we DO to deserve such leaders and when are the proper grown ups taking over again?)

The torture Tim endured to read St Jacinda's book resulted in this masterclass of a review, that he probably enjoyed writing.

82% stayed. Academic Twitter is doing OK.

Canada’s MAiD program wants to use the respect due to doctors to differentiate MAiD from su*cide, but doesn’t actually want doctors to use their judgement as *doctors*

Macquarie University – apparently planning to discontinue all teaching of ancient languages – setting fire to an area in which it has a real international reputation

A disgraceful philistine decision, gratuitously destroying whole subject areas (including ancient history) in which Macquarie had serious international reputation. Sometimes you don't need political interference if you have this kind of university management.

Headlines from 1906.

BREAKING Jody Simpson, who caused her 6-week-old baby boy Tony Hudgell near-fatal injuries resulting in the amputation of his legs, is to be freed from prison. Parole Board ruled her imprisonment was "no longer necessary for the protection of the public".

Building a counter-elite (or even an alternative elite) is hard even if you try. It's exponentially harder if you make yourself repellent to potential members of it.

Yuan Yi Zhu It was very hardcore of Dreyfus to go through all that and then come out of retirement to fight in WW1.

It is unobjectionable to stay in your home as long as you want. It is immoral to marshal the coercive power of the state to stop neighboring property owners from building new housing for others on land they own because you perceive yourself as having a right to stop change.

BREAKING 🚨 “The Honourable Leo Housakos, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, is pleased to welcome Senator David Adams Richards to the Conservative Senate Caucus.” “L’honorable Leo Housakos, Leader de l’opposition au Sénat, est heureux d’accueillir le sénateur David Adams