Hmmm, let’s see: child slave labour and toxic pollution, adding to the massive strain on already-stressed power grids, massive weight threatening the integrity of car parks, the same weight causing them to rip through tyres and make even more pollution, the toxic nightmare of disposing of batteries, guzzling
The smartest move Joe Biden ever made was selecting Kamala Harris as his running mate. After all, who’d impeach even a sleazy, senile con-man, only to see him replaced by President Kamala Harris? But it seems that the magic shield of Kamala is wearing thin. Joe Biden faces
As I reported for the BFD last week, the UK parliament gave a subtle middle finger to Beijing when it adopted a cross-party report that described Taiwan as “an independent country”. The Sunak government has lent its support to another besieged democracy, with a timely visit to Israel. The
You almost have to feel sorry for Australian republic activists. Almost. Because then you remember that they’re people like Malcolm Turnbull and Pirate Pete FitzSimons, and you just laugh at them instead. Because, for all their decades of hectoring, bullying, finger-wagging, and swearing that this time — this time
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Labour has copped an absolute shellacking in the polls over the past ten days. Newshub/Reid Research was the fifth bad poll for them, and now the Guardian has released a new poll, making it six bad polls for Labour. Neither a Labour nor a National coalition could form a
Groucho Marx famously didn’t want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. For Australia’s political elites, it’s more a case of desperately wanting the perks of a club they publicly profess to loathe. Forget the Melbourne Club, the Atheneum, or the Tattersall’
Possibly my first encounter with genuine, hard-as-nails racism came on a trip to the Northern Territory in my teens. A publican in Alice Springs said to me, “I don’t ban anyone on the colour of their skin, I just have a dress code — and I’ve never
Can Jacinta Nampijinpa Price please stop giving us reasons to like her? The first-term senator first made a name for herself vocally advocating for conservative Aboriginal politics in the Northern Territory, drawing attention to appalling rates of domestic violence in Aboriginal communities, including the role of traditional culture and
The left just never learn. You’d think that after Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” clanger became widely recognised as the moment she definitively lost the 2016 election, lefties might have twigged, even the tiniest bit, that screaming names at people isn’t the best way to win them
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Have you ever heard of doom scrolling or doom surfing? Wikipedia describes it as “the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of negative news online. In 2019, a study by the National Academy of Sciences found that doomscrolling can be linked to a decline in
As I wrote recently, Australia’s Nationals, unlike New Zealand’s National, are finally recovering some testicularity in the face of the Climate Cult. The Nationals, the old Country Party, are facing a grass-roots backlash from their constituents, over “Net Zero” policies in general, and “renewables” in particular. Because,
Winston Peters has truly thrown the cat among the pigeons by challenging the foundational myth of “Aotearoa-New Zealand”: magic Maoridom and “indigeneity”. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters told supporters at a public meeting in Nelson on Sunday that Maori are “not indigenous”. “Here’s the rub if you
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