Democracy is, above all else, the art of compromise. Short of the sort of hive-mind that the left can only dream of, citizens of a polity are going to have very different and often opposing needs, wants and opinions. You can’t, to paraphrase FDR, please all of the
Do what you love and you’ll never work another day in your life. That old saying is true even for whores: and there are no more willing whores than the mainstream media. When the NZ media indignantly denied that taking the government’s money influenced them to be favourable
Whenever I hear some prating idiot hand-wringing about “innocent Palestinians”, I reach for my barf bag. Not because there are no innocent Palestinians: I’m sure there are a few tots who haven’t yet learned virulent Jew-hatred at their mother’s (or the UNRWA’s) knee. We
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We are getting many news stories published where we are told that “officials” have advised the Government that they should keep this, or that, or simply not do something that voters elected the Government to deliver, because they don’t agree with the policy. The latest is “officials” opposing any
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One of the major reasons the sleazy, deranged transgender ideology achieved near-hegemony so quickly is the sheer gutlessness of those who very much know better. We shouldn’t expect anything less than prolix cretinism, of course, from social ‘science’ or ‘gender studies’ academics, but biologists, doctors, psychiatrists, pediatricians – all
If George Soros was a foreign government or a beardy-weirdy with a green rag on his head, he’d long ago have been designated a “foreign adversary”. The US government defines a “foreign adversary” as “any foreign government or foreign non-government person engaged in a long-term pattern
The wheels of justice in Washington, as I’ve said before, grind exceedingly slow: witness the decade-plus, glacial progress of the Mark Steyn–Michael Mann trial. The machinery of justice grinds even slower when you’ve got a virtual one-party state with its hands on all the levers,
Former Australian PM Tony Abbott has a new book coming out, and it’s certain to send the chattering classes into a screaming fit of triggernometry. With a working title of Peak Insanity, Abbott promises to tackle “The climate cult, the gender fluidity push, magic pudding economics, the cultural self-
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Over the weekend two columns highlighted Grant Robertson’s appalling track record as history sets about judging him as the worst Finance Minister to have ever graced the Treasury benches. Truth will out. First up was Matthew Hooton: Yesterday’s shock 0.3 per cent decline in GDP in just
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I recently leased a PO box for business purposes. It turns out to have been an unintentionally prescient move: Australia Post has mooted plans to cut residential delivery from daily to every two days. We’ve come a long way from the ‘primitive’ 19th century, when mail was delivered twice
So, is the ‘Crazy Cat Lady’ stereotype based in fact after all? A new review of the scientific literature suggests that it is. Which comes first, though, the cats or the crazy, is not so clear. A new review suggests that having a cat as a pet could potentially double
