In a key scene of Citizen Kane, Kane’s erstwhile guardian, banker Thatcher, warns the young man newly come into his inheritance, that his pet folly, the ailing New York Inquirer, is fast losing money. Kane agrees that it loses a million dollars a year: at the rate of a
You’d think the left might have learned from Hillary Clinton’s humiliation in 2016: unrepentant snobbery and insulting half the population isn’t a big vote-winner. Unfortunately, most of the left these days are ensconced in the wealthy suburbs of a handful of big cities. In fact, wealth seems
The road to the mythical climate utopia is littered with scams, boondoggles, and just plain lunatic ideas. Few are more lunatic than so-called “green hydrogen”. Yet, for all its obvious nutbaggery, this has become the latest idea to rule supreme in the empty, clanging heads of the Climate Cultists. And
As was obvious all along, the Albanese government and Helen Clark are wrong: Winston Peters is right. There should be no funding the UNRWA. Even if the organisation hadn’t already been thoroughly discredited, there’s no denying now that it’s little more than a Hamas front. Israeli fighter
As we all know, environmentalists are absolutely dedicated to saving trees, and endangered species. Unless, of course, those trees and endangered species are standing in the way of environmentalists making a lot of money. Then, it’s get the chainsaws and D9s out, and let ‘er rip. Which is just
For all that we’re finger-wagged that transgenderism isn’t a fetish or a mental illness, there seem to be an awful lot of trannies behaving like, well, mentally-ill fetishists. It would be one thing, though, if they were just getting off on cross-dressing in the privacy of their own
Back in the 2000s, Howard and Costello had the good fortune to govern during a mining boom and its consequent river of royalties gold. John Howard and Peter Costello wisely banked budget surpluses for the future. Then Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan blew the lot and threw the country back
How long before it’s illegal to be a Catholic in Tasmania? Perhaps we will hide them under the floorboards next to the Jews, when the Waffen-SSM Flamingwerfers come hunting. Certainly, any Catholic actually publicly expressing standard Catholic belief can be expected to be hit with a deafening of screeching
Here’s a sentence I never expected to write: Hillary Clinton is right. Hillary Clinton is many things, but stupid is clearly not one of them. And it cannot be denied that she knows a thing or two about war in the Middle East, if only by dint of being
People often forget that Richard Nixon was impeached, not because of an amateurish burglary, but because of the cover-up. Similarly, Bill Clinton was impeached, not for banging an intern in the Oval Office, but for lying about it under oath. Donald Trump is on trial, not for paying a two-bit
Imagine paying up to a hundred grand (US) for an Ivy League degree — and finding out that no-one wants to hire you. Students at formerly-prestigious US colleges are at the “find out” end of the equation. The same people who were screeching, “Free speech has consequences” for the last decade
As reported recently by The BFD, spineless university authorities are wringing their hands about the prominence of so-called “outside activists” and “blow-ins” at campus anti-Jew “protests”. These are no harmless fist-shakers, either: the “activists” include accused kidnapper-torturer Mohammad Sharab. Another supposed “outside activist” is Ihab al-Azhari, a vicious anti-Semite who
The ability of people to deafen themselves to what they don’t want to hear is astonishing. Hence, when debating with rainbow groomers, they will invariably respond with ‘those things never happen’. Similarly, they invariably steadfastly refuse to countenance that public school teachers might be more prolific abusers than even
If we’re to believe the ‘experts’, believing in conspiracy theories and so-called ‘misinformation’and ‘disinformation’, is a problem unique to the ‘extreme right’ (also so-called). Just ignore the fact-free conspiracy theories that have ruled the dusty, spacious roof of the leftist mind in recent years: the ‘patriarchy’, ‘systemic racism’
It’s not for nothing that social media has been dubbed “the Big Tobacco of the 21st century”. Like Philip Morris and Rothmans in the ’50s and ’60s, companies like Meta have done their internal research and know how harmful their products are. Especially to teens. Yet that’s just
