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ELLESMERE PORT, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 28: The flag of St George and Union Jack flags hang from lamp posts on Westminster Bridge on August 28, 2025 in Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom. An online movement called 'Operation Raise the Colours' has inspired people across the UK to fly flags. It has been reported that some councils have removed the flags on heath and safety grounds and infuriating some members of the community to raise even more and also paint mini traffic islands with the Cross of St George, the flag of England. The flag of the United Kingdom is steeped in a rich history of both pageantry and controversy and has taken on a complexity of meaning over the centuries as symbols of patriotism, national unity, empire, and protest. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Elite’s contempt for ‘raise the colours’ an attack on patriotism

Supporters of the movement indicated that they were fed up with the situation where local councils were happy to fly the Palestinian and LGBTQ flags but not that of their nation.

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Why are we shaming our children's heritage?

Why are we shaming our children’s heritage?

The war on the West’s history being waged in schools is cutting children off from their cultural inheritance.

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Pro-Palestinian activists and supporters wave flags and carry placards during a National March for Palestine in central London on December 9, 2023, calling for full ceasefire in the war in Gaza. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Fight for our way of life must begin from within

The Israeli-Hamas war is a proxy battle for the future of Western civilisation. Who would have imagined rainbow-flag-waving activists would march with radical Islamists?

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Sign placed at the William Crowther statue in Franklin Square Hobart. Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones

Revisionists stop us from looking our future in the face

The humiliating backdown and promise by the head of a leading historical society to ‘re-educate’ himself exposes the dangerous consequences of thought-policing our history.

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Kevin Costner stars in the TV series Yellowstone. Supplied by Stan.

Why no one will talk about Yellowstone

Even the most bitter critic cannot dismiss Yellowstone as trash TV. But this wildly popular series watched by tens of millions of people is being deliberately ignored by the cultural media.

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US President Joe Biden watches US Vice President Kamala Harris speak while hosting a reception to celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month on May 17, 2022. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

How American wokeness is giving China free rein

Australia must wake up to the harm caused by US culture wars, or it will discover Beijing’s diplomatic coup in the Solomons is just the beginning.

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Culture war turns to military one as election battle looms

Culture war turns to military one as election battle looms

With war on their border, many Hungarians fear a change of rule. A palpable mood of insecurity pervades the region.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 06, 2021 Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the US Capitol in Washington, DC. - One year after supporters of Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol and shut down Congress, Americans still await a reckoning on the unprecedented challenge to the country's democracy. Was it a simple protest-turned-riot? An insurrection? A coup attempt plotted by Trump? Videos from January 6, 2021 bear witness to the violence wrought in the former president's name. Attackers beating security officers with iron bars and clubs. A policeman crushed in a doorway, howling in pain. Rioters clad in assault gear chanting

Chicken Littles must drop the fearmongering

Populism was already fuelling the catastrophists before the pandemic tipped them over the edge. The language of catastrophism permeates public discourse.

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A scene from Opera Australia's Faust.

They are coming for the classics

We need to protect Romeo and Juliet from barbarians inside the gate, who are hellbent on ‘decolonising the arts’.

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Supporters of Greece's extreme right Golden Dawn party raise torches during a rally commemorating a 1996 military incident which cost the lives of three Greek navy officers and brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of war, in Athens, on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Golden Dawn was founded as a neo-Nazi group during the early 1980s and is currently the third-largest party in Greece's Parliament. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Why does the ‘woke left’ tolerate anti-Semitism?

The steady rise in casual anti-Semitism hides a much more disturbing development, as the post-Holocaust victim status of ‘hyper-white’ Jews is revised.

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