Trapped in the People’s Republic of Wikipedia

I’m starting to learn what it might be like to live in China but fortunately my experience is actually pretty benign.  I’m in a sort of virtual China, where my physical, mental and material well-being are preserved but my intellectual life, or part thereof, is severely constrained. 

Let me explain.  I am the author of Bitter Harvest – the illusion of Aboriginal agriculture in Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu. I am sure that most Spectator readers will be aware of this phenomenally successful book which postulates that, contrary to what we have always believed, Aborigines were not nomadic hunter/gatherers but sophisticated agriculturalist who invented government 120,000 years ago and wrought a pan-continental peace…