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Labour’s campaign chairperson, Megan Woods, says they can turn the polls around in time for the election. Apparently she is satisfied with how they are going, despite seven polls in ten days telling these dolts that the game is up. Labour’s campaign chairperson said the party can turn
A Fascist with manners” Martin Hirst, editor, author, journalist and journalism educator Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. As Australian Correspondent for Canon Media Award-winning blog, Whaleoil, then the website The BFD, Lushington Brady has informed, entertained and infuriated New Zealand readers. Now, his first collection of
As C S Lewis said, the worst inquisitors are those who torment us for our own good. The worst liars, censors and oppressors are those who swear that they are censoring us to protect. Who lie and oppress in the name of “truth” and “democracy”. This week, a Senate Judiciary
It’s the sort of thing Antiques Roadshow dreams are made of: the bit of op-shop tat that turns out to be a long-lost masterpiece, worth a tidy fortune. Mostly, though, what people are holding on to really is just a bit of old tat. If you don’
Dr Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, is a professor of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he researches epidemiology and health economics. So, when you’re told to “listen to the experts”, he’s the kind of guy you’d think they’d listen to, not some media
Some people just can’t help themselves. Beauty, as the saying goes, may be skin deep, but ugly goes all the way through. People who are full of nothing but piss, vinegar and bile can try and hide it, but the ugly truth always erupts to the surface in short
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The Labour Party are finding out a terrible truth right now: that no one cares what they or their lickspittles in the media have to say anymore. Voters simply do not believe a word they say and have literally switched off. The media are making fools of themselves too, constantly
As the hugely successful biopic Oppenheimer demonstrates, scientists aren’t always nerdy, lab-coated types solely obsessed with scribbling equations on blackboards. J Robert Oppenheimer was a man of wide, and sometimes weird, interests. When he quoted the Bhagavad Gita as the Trinity test bomb mushroomed into the New Mexico
There’s a notable curiosity about so-called “channelers” and “past life regressors”: the spirits they “contact” are always decidedly posh. Atlantean and Egyptian priestesses are quite popular. If they can’t be posh, they must at least be exciting: Salem witches, for example. No New Ager worth their salt
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As thinking left-winger Caitlyn Johnstone so perspicaciously noted, way back at the dawn of the Russia-Ukraine war, the entire narrative of the Western political establishment was complete and utter hypocritical bullshit. When Russia unilaterally invaded Ukraine on a thin pretext, the West had only just extricated itself from
Anyone who prattles about a “climate emergency”, or that climate change is an existential threat to life on Earth, almost certainly hasn’t read the scientific literature. Instead, they’re relying solely on the mainstream media, who are parroting press releases, written by activists, for politicians. Anyone who thinks that
