The late Douglas Adams might well have been thinking of the mainstream media when he described sheep: “they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning”. Your average Australian journalist has, in their less-than-30 years
There may have been more outright venal popes than the current one, but when it comes to sheer cretinous stupidity, Pope Francis is in a league of his own. At least John XII had the feeble excuse of being a teenager (which is to say, stupid, arrogant and hormonally impulsive)
Oh, boy. Here we go again. Hot on the heels of Javier Milei’s victory in Argentina, Geert Wilders is on track for a massive election boost in the Netherlands. We all know what that means: exactly what it meant when Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orban won and when Marine
Was Kurtz onto something? In the doom-laden climax of Heart of Darkness, the malaria-deranged Kurtz utters his famous dying words, The horror! The horror! Exterminate all the brutes! UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps recently pointed out an obvious fact that completely escapes the modern left antisemites bellowing for a ceasefire:
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Late on Thursday night I got up to go to the bathroom. I had been sick for two days and had probably become dehydrated, which contributed to my potassium levels dropping and therefore low blood pressure. When I stood up it was lights out. I woke up face down on
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As BFD readers may recall, I’ve posted several times about the Lost Continent of Zealandia. What is now New Zealand and New Caledonia are the last highlands of Zealandia left poking above the Pacific waters. But there’s another leftover chunk of Gondwana that’s getting in on the
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The loyalty of dogs can be legendary. Most of us will have grown up with stories like Greyfriar’s Bobby and Lassie. More recently the story of Hachiko, the Akita who waited at Shibuya Station in Tokyo, every day, for 10 years after his master died, earned him an eventual
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Poor Boofhead. No matter how hard he tries to toady up to the cool COP kids, they just keep giving him wedgies and shoving his head in the toilet. As reported yesterday by The BFD, Chris Bowen is preparing to strut his stuff at COP28 by trying on the climate
If you needed no other argument against lowering the voting age — in fact, if you want an argument for raising the voting age — you need only look at Melbourne yesterday. It was like a scene out of Triumph of the Will, with keffiyehs in place of brown shirts. Hundreds of
With hindsight, the Hindmarsh Bridge affair should have been seen at the time for what it was: a test case of Enlightenment rationalism against primitive tribal superstition. Alas, even then, Australia’s media-political chattering classes were all gaga for a bit of oogabooga. So the primitive tribal superstitions won. For
Consensus is, as the saying goes, everyone agreeing on something that none of them really believe. Which is why consensus can too often lead to appallingly bad decision-making. It was the consensus of the Bush cabinet, for instance, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and that the violent
