What does it say about a newspaper with all ‘the latest, breaking news’ when it goes on and on and on about one religious fundamentalist who kicks a football, but means no harm, with story after story of his doings but simply can’t find space for the shocking murder
While the whole world watches, two women are being demonised as a result of fiction. They are being jeered at and name-called by the vicious lynch mob of social media, those awful and usually anonymous attacking creatures with a grasp of reason as tenuous as their toehold on the world
Nice Mr Twyford claims his motley crew have Housing New Zealand ‘on steroids’. I’m not sure about that, but I’m prepared to believe the gentleman himself is a user, in view of his exhibiting some of the side effects of the medication; he seems to be suffering both
Sunday morning, New Yorkers woke to a front page lead story of a young, dare I say ‘white’, fellow ‘radicalised’, ‘seduced’ and even ‘brainwashed’ by ‘far-right’ monologues watched on YouTube, and his resultant journey to near-extremism and back, complete with references to the Christchurch shootings. The story reeks of make-believe.
Aha! The loving left and their addiction to violence. Of course, it is strictly inclusive, diverse and sustainable violence…throwing milkshakes, throwing people to the ground, punching passive strangers and all with absolutely zero remorse: “It didn’t appear that the anti-Trump demonstrators regretted their actions at all. “If you
The Whale-Being Budget Information Parody based on John Clarke’s satire. A bit of quiet, please, a bit of quiet…settle down! Gidday, and thanks for coming along on this auspicacious, ah…auspicionous, ah…on this bloody great occasion; the unveiling of the first, the inaugural, ‘Whale-Being Budget’. I won’
Aunty Helen’s talking parrot has flown home to perch, no doubt replete with some new and clever French phrases to show off, and happy with her strut upon the ‘World’ stage; À chaque fou plaît sa marotte. (Every fool is happy in their own folly). Now that she’s
Good morning; Class. Welcome to Media Ethics.101, where today we will be discussing hate-speech which is a very important topic given nice Mr Little’s crusade to ensure publishing unkind things in the future will get people in a lot more trouble than before. In today’s example we
Take equal parts “tolerance, respect and understanding”, throw in a bit of “illumination” and voila! You have created the left’s updated version of Fawlty Towers ‘Don’t mention the war’ episode. Last week the luvvies have been conflicted, severely, and, not knowing what to do in fear of breaching
James I of England was a gifted scholar and lover of knowledge, fluent in four languages. By the time he was fourteen, he encouraged learning and the advancement of science. Under his patronage William Harvey laid the foundations of modern anatomy with his revolutionary theory of blood circulation overturning 1500
Claim: Russians tried to influence the 2016 US election. Finding: True. From the report: Russian election influence came principally from the Internet Research Agency, LLC (IRA), a Russian organization funded by Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin. Claim: Russia exclusively promoted Trump. Finding: False. From the report: Main idea: Use any opportunity to
Read all about it; Fake Science, brought to you by Victoria University and published in the Sunday (All the news that’s fit to fake) Star Times of April 7th. Breathlessly beginning the fakery with “Almost half of respondents to a large-scale science survey believe toilet water spirals in different
