Like mothers throughout human history, mine would often reprimand me for some childish act of group stupidity by asking, if my friends jumped off a cliff, would I do it too? Of course, I never gave her the honest answer: of course I would. Children are idiots and born followers.
Being the Current Thing is a precarious honour. To paraphrase Krusty the Clown, one day, you’re the most important thing there ever was; the next day, you’re some schmo begging for handouts and pissing everyone off. Of course, Ukraine has been begging for handouts all along, but for
Britain nearly got lucky, last year. Nearly. Back in July 2022, when Britain’s ruling Conservatives were casting about for a replacement for the unlamented Boris Johnson, one name that stood out from the pack of CINOs and globalist toadies was Kemi Badenoch. As I wrote back then: If Badenoch
Britain has long been a case study in the madness of “Net Zero”. The UK faces the prospect of widespread power outages for the first time since power was rationed in the early ’70s. Even barring full blackouts, tens of thousands of British households have to choose, every winter, between
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National minister Erica Stanford better sort out her priorities pretty darn quick, because her inability to separate fact from fiction regarding the Posie Parker debacle makes her a target for political manipulation and of real concern when she takes on more responsibility in the new government. Political careers depend on
1News, as part of their finance debate between Grant Robertson and Nicola Willis, polled people to seek their opinions on paying for poverty reduction and climate change. The debate was an unedifying spectacle that illuminated no one but the poll results were as anyone would have expected. The first part
Boomers, as we all know, like to think they invented everything. Teenage sex (what, they never read Romeo and Juliet?), adolescent rebellion (ask Plato about that one), recreational drugs (the entire history of the human race is a saga of inventing new ways to get messed up), and rock’n’
No doubt due to the cautionary tales of mothers everywhere hoping to help their curious offspring survive to adulthood, tales of malevolent water spirits are near-ubiquitous around the world. In Anglo-Celtic culture, if the kelpies didn’t get you, Jenny Greenteeth would. Australia’s Aborigines famously had the bunyip (even
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Race troughers and professional “Aborigines” love to blatherskite about “truth-telling”, but telling the whole, unvarnished truth is the last thing they really do. Half of the time these pasty-faced bullshit-artists can’t even tell the truth of their own ancestry. But their endless calumnies against Australia, that is a “racist”
Here’s something I never thought I’d say: I’m with Sam Newman. For BFD readers who may be unaware, Newman is a former AFL footballer and long-time presenter on The Footy Show. On that show, Newman played the role of the blokey buffoon, the oafish clown, the loudmouth
You know, it’s instructive to now and again peruse even the most rabidly left-wing journals like Jacobin. Because, quite often, you’ll realise that we agree on a great many things, however much Jacobin writers may end up grabbing the wrong end of the stick (and, as often as
When challenged on why the Albanese government didn’t simply legislate an “Indigenous Voice” body, the answer is always, “So that it couldn’t be disbanded in the future, like ATSIC”. In the first place, this contradicts the Yes campaign’s repeated claim that it’s “disinformation” that, once in
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