As I keep warning you: Always assume that “fact-checkers” are trying to bullshit you. This isn’t a paranoid delusion, it’s a fundamental principle of science and logic. Take no-one’s word for it. Least of all mainstream media entities whose clear mission is to reinforce narratives rather than
Every joke, Orwell as reminds us, is a tiny revolution. “A thing is funny when… it upsets the established order,” the great essayist wrote. “Whatever destroys dignity, and brings down the mighty from their seats, preferably with a bump, is funny.” This is partly why bards, even jesters, enjoyed a
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Everyone, including Blind Freddy, knows that our economy is in the dunny. The only ones who think everything is grand are Grant Robertson and the other useless idiots in the governing parties. Even the IMF knows that we are in dire shape: New Zealand is at risk of falling into
You know you live in an authoritarian regime when you’re not only forbidden from uttering a word of criticism about designated groups, but ordered to celebrate them. If a regime decks public spaces with its banners and flags, and punishes any who desist, that’s authoritarianism. If even the
As I reported recently, Greek police have raided a commercial surrogacy clinic in Crete, arresting staff and taking newborn babies into protective custody. Initial reporting in the Australian media focused almost exclusively on the “desperate” surrogate parents — many Australian — who were being “cruelly” denied the “happy” arrival of their “healthy
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Remember 28 days ago when Winston Peters claimed that there was a $20 billion hole in Government accounts and that public sector bosses were being called in for serious and secret talks about how to save money in their departments? Former Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has alleged there is
It’s hardly surprising that dippy modern feminists have gone so ga-ga for the batty nonsense that’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Dippy, literary cat-lady Margaret Atwood clutches her pearls over an imagined future where a shortage of fertile females sees women turned into slave broodmares. In reality, a catastrophic
As I keep advising parents of today’s school-aged children: Homeschool your kids. In retrospect, it’s what I would have done, had I my druthers. Absolutely, were my kids school-aged now, it’s what I’d do. It’s not just that schools are clearly doing a pretty bad
In a stunning scene from Fred Schepisi’s The Devil’s Playground, a priest delivers a terrifying sermon on the torments of hell. The priest is played by author Thomas Keneally, who would later talk of his “feeling of outrage that at the age of seven we were lumbered with
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If the “Indigenous Voice” referendum is passed, it will turn Australia into a profoundly un-democratic state where racial privilege is the law of the land. Whether or not it passes, though, enough damage has been done: the process so far has trashed the spirit of the Constitution and skirted the
