Back in the heady days of the 2000s, the cream – or should that be “the scum” – of the Australian left were really fangirling over Hugo Chavez, then-president of Venezuela. So besotted were they by their new socialist strongman Big Daddy that they penned an open letter begging him to come
It’s apparently not a tongue-in-cheek joke that the Teals are calling for truth-in-advertising rules for politicians. In which case, they’d have to stop calling themselves “independents”. And the ALP would have to stop calling themselves the “Labor party”. None of them have done a day’s actual labour
Well, it’s official, Chloe Swarbrick: you’re bellowing an antisemitic, genocidal hate slogan. No less an authority than the US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly agreed. Before Chloe and her anti-Israel chums start blithering that it’s all just the wicked Republicans, the measure was co-sponsored by two Democrats.
Some kids have all the luck. Like most kids, I was a dinosaur fanatic. I still am. I was lucky enough, at least, to go on a bona fide fossil dig, in my early teens. I’ve fossicked a handful of minor fossils since. But nothing like little Lily Wilder’
While Maltese cuisine can often be mistaken for basic Mediterranean/Italian fare, it certainly has its signature unique dishes. Pastizzi, for instance, are the classic Maltese street food: crisp, buttery pastries filled variously with ricotta, mashed curried peas or other fillings. Another Maltese classic is Ghagin Fil Forn (the first
It may have won a swag of Academy Awards, though why is beyond me, but James Cameron’s Titanic is not exactly noted for its historical accuracy. From Picasso paintings that most definitely weren’t on the Titanic, to flashlights and filtered cigarettes, there were a whole bunch of anachronisms.
As I’ve written before, so many conventional wisdoms are built on foundations of quicksand. From the firmly held belief in “Settler Colonialism” in the New World to the endlessly asserted claims of low immigrant crime, so much that we’re furiously finger-wagged is “fact”, is anything but. Interviewing Jello
Did the Victorians have the right idea? Was the Suffragette movement genuinely a threat to good social order? Was it all a gigantic mistake, letting women vote? Because, if we’re looking for where to blame the dominance of wokeism, we only have to go as far the ladies’ room.
As I wrote recently, Iran’s barrage of drones and missiles launched against Israel was a battlefield failure, but in many ways a propaganda victory. But, on the flipside of the ledger, there were more than a few ominous strategic outcomes for Iran. First off, the only casualty of Iran’
The space race was as much about geopolitics as it was about science, adventure, or the spirit of man, or whatever palaver Kennedy was prone to speechifyin’. The simple fact was the Soviet Union had humiliated its Cold War rival by launching the first satellite, then the first human into
Sometimes the Australia-New Zealand rivalry just goes too far. It’s one thing to bitch and moan for decades about bowling a grubber, but trying to outdo each other in having the lamest defence policy is quite another. New Zealand cut its air force back to a bloke with a
In recent years, the followers of one religion marched through the streets of Sydney on multiple occasions, demanding, variously, to “Behead those who insult the Prophet”, and to “Gas the Jews!” The leader of another religion responded to being stabbed in the face, mid-sermon, by praying for his attacker. Can
As I wrote recently, even the dim bulbs of the woke left are aware that shilling for the most regressive, misogynist, homophobic religious ideology in the world is an obvious and staggering hypocrisy. So, what do most of them do? What the left always do when they’re caught out:
Does anyone remember 3D TV? The next wave of home entertainment, superseding plasma screens and OLED TVs, and all that old junk. Then, it just disappeared from showrooms faster than a laserdisc copy of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The hype around 3D TV coincided with a similar fad for
As I wrote, at the start of the week, the circus that keeps on giving the media an endless feed of scandal is going to keep on giving for a while yet. And you can just bet that, despite the excoriating judgement on media conduct by Justice Michael Lee, the
Is there any bar so low that Anthony Albanese can’t limbo right under it? He really is the most contemptible excuse for a Prime Minister I’ve seen in my life — and in my half-century or so, I’ve seen some doozies. We’ve seen the venal and the
