No: The Bumper Number

11 Responses to No: The Bumper Number

1. NFA says:

   31 July, 2023 at 1:14 am

   A great read and many thanks to Keith Windschuttle and the Quadrant Team.
2. NFA says:

   31 July, 2023 at 2:30 am

   C.L.

   Thank you for the reminder of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

   I often wonder what he would say to present day Jesuits!
3. rosie says:

   31 July, 2023 at 7:34 am

   Not all present day Jesuits are the same.
4. Vagabond says:

   31 July, 2023 at 8:27 am

   I have circulated it as widely as possible, even at the risk of losing a few friends. Everybody needs to read it!
5. Demarco says:

   31 July, 2023 at 10:56 am

   Yes a big effort, but from what I’ve read of this, it’s not written to change minds. I feel that’s the problem with Quadrant: it’s not very well edited, and tends to talk to itself. Much prefer CL!
6. vlad redux says:

   31 July, 2023 at 12:41 pm

   The mere existence of this issue of the magazine will cause several heads to explode.
7. vlad redux says:

   31 July, 2023 at 12:41 pm

   Figuratively speaking.
8. NFA says:

   31 July, 2023 at 12:49 pm

   vlad redux says:
   31 July, 2023 at 12:41 pm

   The mere existence of this issue of the magazine will cause several heads to explode.

   I couldn’t resist watching it again… lol

   “Kingsman: The Secret Service”, Exploding Heads Scene
9. C.L. says:

   31 July, 2023 at 12:52 pm

   I often wonder what he would say to present day Jesuits!

   Well, they’re certainly not the pope’s commandos – as they used to be. Or, at least, they weren’t when John Paul II and Benedict XVI were in office. They seem a bit more loyal to the papacy under Francis, though. I wonder why. 😉

   As Rosie points out, however, they’re not all the same.

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   You’re far too kind, Demarco. Busy-ness with real life has slowed me down here lately and will for a little while yet. Apologies for that.

   If you don’t want to read the lengthier articles in the Quadrant compendium, at least scroll down to the last contributor: Tim Blair brings it all home in his usual masterly, amusing way.
10. C.L. says:

    31 July, 2023 at 1:06 pm

    Roger Franklin’s 50 reasons to vote No is also excellent.
11. NFA says:

    31 July, 2023 at 3:15 pm

    As an aside, but an interesting grouping,

    Expelled MP Moira Deeming headlines sold out Liberal event

    Hundreds of supporters have ­attended a sold-out Liberal Party fundraiser in Melbourne’s western suburbs, headlined by expelled Victorian Liberal Moira Deeming, alongside a panel that included two federal shadow cabinet ministers and two Indigenous leaders.

    Party sources say only about half of the 450 people who bought tickets were Liberal Party members, with Mrs Deeming appearing on a panel alongside senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Sarah Henderson, Claire Chandler and Alex Antic, Indigenous leaders and No vote campaigners Warren Mundine and Anthony Dillon, and state upper house MP Bev McArthur.