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22 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Australia is the size of the European Union with a disparate population of ~26m people. We are also an energy superpower & energy provides much of our national income & jobs. Hard to see Labor winning federally until it wants to represent & defend these workers #UpperHunter ImageImage
Australia is afflicted by a political class that thinks we could be Denmark when we are an enormous island continent that depends on mining & energy extraction & we are not some EU toytown panzer stop. These very same people are then surprised by the #UpperHunter results tonight Image
Scott Morrison gets smashed here every day (often deservedly) but he does get - as no PM since Howard gets - that most Australian elections swing on Upper Left Quadrant voters. Still, Work Choices finished Howard. Morrison knows not to reopen Australia imprudently #UpperHunter Image
As if on cue: Again there is no path to a House majority and government for Labor that does not involve winning in resources extraction areas. Following the twitterati leads only to electoral oblivion. [Amusing sledging inner city cafes as=Left politics]

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20 May
Given revelations about the conduct of the BBC & employees conspiring to defraud the late HRH Princess Diana, the crimes of Lese Majeste should be re-enacted into British law and their application broadened. A sordid media whose lies ended in two boys being left motherless. GSTQ
Princess Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, believed Bashir who ".... had shown Spencer fake bank statements suggesting that Diana was being bugged by the security services and that two senior aides were being paid to provide information about her."
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Entirely unsurprising: "As questions continued, BBC managers failed to scrutinise his version of events properly and covered up facts about how Bashir had secured the interview."

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20 May
Further to the above, there has been disquiet expressed by some as to the use of ‘barricades’ and ‘bayonets’ below. My usual policy is never to explain tweets but as knowledge of the Ancien Regime vs the Revolutionaries is sorely lacking, here we go. Welcome to a very Tory🧵
As many but clearly all do not know, our modern Right & Left descend from various sources, most commonly cited is the French Revolutionary aftermath, when the King’s party sat to the Right of an assembly president & those opposed, the liberals as well as the Jacobin, to the Left.
For those of us who are Anglophone, our modern politics really starts with the British Civil Wars of King vs Parliament (Celts/Gaels vs Anglo) from the 1642 attempt by King Charles to arrest parliamentarians (who fully deserved this) until, really, the defeat at Culloden in 1746.
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19 May
If there is an explainer of how any sane US President could oppose the North American Keystone pipeline - but then facilitate the Russian Nordstream project - then would be fascinated to read it. Stuff of literal strategic dementia
This is what Trump tried to do in 2018

This is a small thread I did last October on energy and geopolitics

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17 May
Massive puffer jacketing in Sydney this morning. Reminiscent of late Malcolmism when this was the ABC’s key demo, the Kelly O’Dwyer intifada.
That was all two years ago .... that funereal ABC special on election night in May 2019 .... the sight of Simon Birmingham - who had singlehandedly almost destroyed the Coalition in greater Sydney with Catholic schools parents - trying to say he played any part in the victory
Malcolm is entitled to some bitterness - and to a puffer jacket - but he toppled Nelson & Abbott & knew the game's rules. Right now Malcolm is the de facto opposition leader as Albanese clearly does not want the job & operates at Dave Sharma-esque low energy levels
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16 May
Scott Morrison has done well by ignoring bleatings from corporate spivs & if he wants re-election he should ignore them now. Until there is mass vaccination, Australia cannot readily open itself to a resurgence of Covid or its variants. Crown’s first task is to protect the realm Image
Given the endless stream of expatriate woe stories, am surprised Newspoll did not poll what Australians' reaction is to expats who have not lived here for decades, suddenly, deciding, yes, they were Australians, again. I doubt it is 'let prodigal London fund manager come home'
Australia's slow pace of vaccination means our historically zealous immigration controls must remain in place. We are a massive island at the bottom of the world, we suffered terribly from Spanish Flu, and we do not have immunities from a herd experience or from vaccinations.
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13 May
French officers at the Tomb of Napoleon
I did a whole thread on Napoleon here, that, my earlier self would be shocked that I did, but, now, even I have to defend Napoleon

This by @northumbriana on the French is one of the best pieces I have read in English - would add that the graves & history of hundreds of thousands of Australian & Empire war dead buried in France are very well taken care of a century later

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