A pattern is emerging in Victoria. Almost every time a teal candidate is announced, a Liberal spending promise follows soon afterwards.
Source: Liberals throw cash at teal-targeted Victorian seats
UK Labor Polls see a 7 point rise with the election of Truss
In a speech to mildly excited supporters, new PM Liz Truss vowed to continue to oversee the rapid disintegration of Britain’s economy, but with a slightly more serious hairdo.
“I will continue to dismantle the NHS, but I’ll do it with all of the buttons on my shirt done up in the correct order, and without quoting ancient Greek literature ” she said.
Liz Truss sweeps to power on inspirational ‘not-quite-as-shit-as-Boris’ platform
Murdoch presence is his “business model” of “gun for hire” and it’s being applied in France
Emmanuel Macron has hired a spin doctor to Rupert Murdoch and former adviser to Sir Tony Blair as a top aide, tasking him with selling the French president’s vision to voters amid fears of rising discontent.
Source: Emmanuel Macron hires Murdoch spin doctor as French voter discontent grows
We saw what Bob Santa Maria's Catholicism did to Labor politics in the 50s. Will Pentecostalism do the same for the Liberal Party and tear it apart? Morrison and now Dutton will continue with their grubby culture wars in opposition and Sky News after Dark along with News Corp will be their amplifiers
Australians have begun to see the new face of extreme religion in our “conservative” politics.
It is not just the rights of individuals but the (flawed) democracies that have gradually made room for civil rights for more groups than just property-owning White men that is at stake in the rise of the authoritarian Religious Right. These democracies are more likely than authoritarian regimes to protect the equality of Others, preventing the persecution and even the atrocities that religion-infused extremism can foster. Without data-driven secular governments, our capacity to tackle the climate emergency is crippled. It is critical that we perceive the risk that is reflected in the speeches of Scott Morrison to his Pentecostal audiences. It is not merely a foreign faith movement uncomfortably shoe-horned into our secular state; it is a threat of incalculable scope. We must work together to keep authoritarian religious radicalism out of our government.
Nor is this limited to the West or is Christianity the only faith drawn into the nativist nationalist trend. In India, the Hindutva movement aims to subdue all Indians within a Hindu nation with one faith and language. Shinto is central to a Japanese nationalist movement. Buddhism is key to Myanmar and Sri Lanka’s nationalist movements. Israel is self defining as a Jewish nation and imposing second class status on non-Jews within its borders.
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