In a recent opinion piece, The Australian’s Adam Creighton tried vainly to defend Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Especially ludicrous was his claim that it was “hypocritical” for Trump supporters to attack Biden for botching the whole affair, because, “Trump himself had earlier agreed in February 2020 to
I’ve been saying it since the early months of the pandemic, and I’m going to keep saying it because those responsible ought to hear: lockdowns were worse than useless. It was all for nothing. Really, for nothing. The miseries we inflicted on ourselves after March 2020 — the school
The honeymoon is over, baby. Like all freshmen leaders, Anthony Albanese has enjoyed a dream run in the opinion polls — for a while. But, as honeymoons do, sooner or later, the electorate rolls over and sees what the harsh glare of sunlight reveals. It looks like Albo’s mascara has
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I’m taking one for the team being on the receiving end of the Labour Party’s campaign emails. This week’s plea from Carmel Sepuloni is followed by my response. My Mate ChippyDownload You can tell Mr Hipkins that when he owns up to his government’s failures – and
The August Roy Morgan Poll is out, and blood is flowing out in vast quantities. Labour is staring down the barrel of a massive rout. But the news is not all good for the Right; National remains stalled and it is Act that is ascendant. Today’s Roy Morgan New
Something happens to the very rich, to their detriment: they lose the presence of people to tell them, “No”. When, as invariably happens, the wealthy and powerful surround themselves with sycophants, there’s no one around them willing to tell them, “That’s a stupid idea. You’re making an
I have good news and good news on the “Indigenous Voice” referendum. The good news is that support for Yes continues to fall, with No now reaching an all-out majority for the first time. The other good news is that the referendum is killing Labor, and Anthony Albanese personally. The
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Labour and their lickspittles like the CTU are committed to running a deeply negative campaign this election. They have to because they’ve got nothing positive to say, nor any material successes to point to. But National is whining like a whore who’s never been paid. That needs to
Does anyone still seriously believe in the meritocratic claims of politicians and their pet ‘expert’ class? I mean, who seriously could, after the last five years? We’ve all seen for ourselves just how hopelessly, utterly, disastrously wrong the ‘experts’ and politicians were. So, why would anyone believe them again?
In a move that will almost certainly enrage the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – which is to say, it’s the right thing to do – a UK government report has explicitly referred to Taiwan as “an independent country”. This is a bold move: the CCP is adamant that the independent island
The first casualty of war, the saying goes, is truth. The Ukraine war is proving that old adage in spades. Right from the start, we in the West have been subjected to a tsunami of propaganda masquerading as truth (as, no doubt, are Russian news-consumers). From the imaginary “Ghost of
I’ve asked it before, and now I have to ask it again: is it time to spit on teachers? Of course not: like all rhetorical questions, I ask merely for effect. To make a point. And the point is this: the churches have been (rightly) held to account for
