Like all politicians and similar hucksters, the truth comes out, not during the campaign or the hard sell, but once the vote is in and the deal is done. Politicians and used-car salesmen will grease you with all manner of snake oil: it’s only when they’ve got your
In a rare outbreak of collective decency, six of Australia’s former prime ministers have issued an unprecedented letter of support for Israel, and condemnation of Hamas and anti-Semitism. Tellingly, one conspicuously declined. Also tellingly, “pro-Palestine” advocates “condemned” the letter. But first, the good stuff. Six former prime ministers have
It’s disgusting and nauseating, but not exactly surprising, to see the hateful extremists of the Greens proudly marching alongside Muslims chanting “Gas the Jews!” and salivating over the murder of thousands of Israelis. They’re the Greens, after all. Extremism, from Stalinism to Islamic fanaticism, is in their bitter
Here’s a headline you won’t read in the mainstream media: 2023 Smashed Cold Weather Records. Wait, what? How is this possible? 2023 was the year we entered the “era of global boiling”! The UN Secretary-General said so. True enough, but Antonio Guterres also said, hey, those guys beheading
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Have a wee thought for Chris Hipkins, who seems to be shedding a few tears as he comes to grip with being the feather duster after six years of thinking he was the rooster. Apparently, it’s ‘pretty tough’ to lose their cushy jobs after the voters caned them in
In what would surely stand as the worst agreement since the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Australian Greens are agitating for a formal coalition with Labor. Anthony Albanese should enter into a formal coalition with the Greens, sign a public power-sharing deal with Adam Bandt and promote Greens MPs to cabinet if
As Hemingway’s character Mike Campbell observes, in The Sun Also Rises, he went bankrupt “Two ways… Gradually and then suddenly.” The world has slid into a poisonous eruption of naked anti-Semitism in similar fashion: gradually and then suddenly. Anti-Semitism, fashionably disguised as “pro-Palestinian”, has been gradually metastasizing on university
Like water off a duck’s back is an old saying for a very good reason. Water really does seem to slide off the feathers of a duck almost by magic. As Professor Julius Sumner-Miller used to say famously ask, Why is it so? This is not an inconsequential question:
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We are seeing a sea change in our democracy, and it is being done right before our very noses, with nary a peep from a complicit media. That sea change is the wholesale abandonment, by Maori, of democracy in favour of threats, bullying, intimidation and outright brown-mail if they don’
We’ve all experienced the frustration of trying to find that damned 10mm socket, but imagine working in one of the most secure labs on Earth… and realising that you’ve got the wrong toolkit entirely. A cornucopia of scientific revelation lies before you – and you can’t open it.
The one thing that can be said for the so-called “battery of the nation” is that at least it doesn’t burst into unstoppable flames, like the other ones. Otherwise, though, the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project is just another green elephant. The buggers are breeding like rabbits, sustained
