They have a mandate for it, don;t you know.

This sums up my problems with Bunga. Not trying to think slavery and 1776 at the same time, it rejects "progressive" thinking as "claiming moral superiority", and Phil jumping in with his anti-woke buzzwords to dismiss it as "vulnerable minorities" (slaves. yes, they are). Left turning into right.

A great project marred by a tone deaf, pedantic and deflationary review of Anna K's book. Gets it all wrong in his big Hegelian Marxist boots.

How's that tactic going - you know, using avowed anti-democrats and proponents of authoritarian governance as bench-marks for democracy and free speech? Or does animosity against the pathetic centre trump (literally) any concerns with the weapons used to destroy the system they defend?

Well, basically that's where the Grattan's vision of the last 15 years is headed.