• British MPs’ backlash against halal meat

  

  Multiculturalism has come to mean caving in to the demands of minority cultures, and the UK has been at the forefront of Western compliance. But British MPs have bucked, it seems, on the issue of eating halal meats.

  
  

• Prof Bob Carter responds to Robert Manne

  

  The ABC’s Drum Opinion website this week posted a piece by Professor Bob Carter in response to a 9 December alarmist warming article by high profile social commentator Professor Robert Manne.

  
  

• Adapt to climate change and pocket the benefits, Lord Lawson says

  

  There will be positive and negative consequences of climate change and the best policy is to adapt to change and “pocket all the benefits”, former chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson told ABC radio.

  
  

• Australia’s media crisis

  

  “The rise of the authoritarian state continues in Australia, with the onslaught by the left on free speech and dissent moving to a new level,” Merv Bendle writes at Quadrant Online.

  
  

• Advice for Malcolm Turnbull and other true believers

  

  “One of the frustrating characteristics of the climate debate is the unquestioning faith, among lay believers, in today’s conventional wisdom on climate science,” Peter Smith writes at Quadrant Online.

  
  

• The Bolt Report still attracting larger total audiences than ABC’s Insiders

  

  According to the latest audience figures available from OzTAM (the results for 12 and 19 June), The Bolt Report continues to achieve larger total audiences than ABC’s Insiders.

  
  

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