The ARC kept Australian conservatives in their comfort zone

Lyle Shelton of the Family First Party was eating the pink icing from his pavlova with a paper fork. Australian‘s Paul Kelly walked in, his face an even darker shade of pink from the temperature in the 30s outside. I got stuck talking to a researcher from the Institute of Public Affairs about Australia’s “ever-expanding” regulations.

No, dear reader, I was not in the green room of Sky News’ Canberra office after 8pm. I wasn’t even on the same continent. I was in London’s Olympia exhibition center last week for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference — “anti-wake Davos” It was co-founded by Canadian pseudo-intellectual Jordan Peterson, UK House of Lords member Philippa Stroud and media mogul Paul Marshall.