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
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A ‘Trump moment’ in the Netherlands shows that Europe has had enough of identity politics. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to
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As Thomas Sowell said, “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong”. It’s even worse when those same people are given license to keep on
Imagine standing up at the opening of a Holocaust museum to announce that you’re fast-tracking visas for fleeing Nazis. That’s effectively what Australian PM Anthony Albanese has just done. Almost 900 Palestinians granted temporary visas since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel will be subject to security
In news that should surprise absolutely no-one, another Labor climate policy is heading for disaster. Just like all the other ones: remember Julia Gillard’s “Cash for Clunkers”, not to mention the carbon tax? Or Kevin Rudd’s dodgy home insulation scheme, which caused house fires and the deaths of
For a generation who spent so much energy railing against everything old and wealthy, the Boomers in their senescence are notably addicted to money. No wonder George Carlin excoriated the Boomers as whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: “GIMME IT, IT’S MINE!” As Carlin said, Boomers were
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Will a new government, an unprecedented three-party coalition, be sufficient to halt the destructive tendencies begun under John Key but thrust into warp speed by the Ardern Government? Will it have the fortitude to unwind the legislation supporting our continued destruction? Jacinda Ardern broke the law during Covid by locking
