For going on a century and a half, the Ripper murders have exercised a continuous fascination on Western culture. Dozens of movies, hundreds of books and even pop songs have been inspired by the 19th-century serial killer. Not for nothing does the Ripper fictionally declare, in Alan Moore’s From
In the early 2000s ‘Golden Age of Long-Form Television’, the first season of True Detective must surely rank as one of the greats. One part of its genius was that it worked effectively on multiple levels. On the surface level, it was a thoroughly disturbing slab of Southern Gothic, in
Many years ago, I was interviewing a financial planner on the subject of succession planning. One her greatest bugbears, she said, was people who were swimming in a fortune of assets, but still determined to get the aged pension. “You’re sitting on a ten million dollar property — you don’
As Anthony Hopkins once admitted, “actors are pretty stupid”. Nowhere is this more obvious than when actors, as they regularly do, subject us to the dreary ritual of lecturing us on current affairs. Mostly, of course, these overpaid, preening parrots are merely doing what they do for a living: squawking
I rarely put much credence in celebrity opinions, because celebrities are generally not very bright, not very worldly, and terrified of saying anything they know their peers (and paymasters) won’t approve of. That said, occasionally, a celebrity does something that breaks the mould and shows a rare streak of
Willful ignorance is the left’s greatest strength. The ability of the left to flatly deny what they don’t want to know about is almost impressive, in a way. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve raised a published, peer-reviewed, scientific, documented fact that runs
When the shocking video of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore broke, many Australians were immediately reminded of Hobart’s Tasman Bridge disaster in 1975. In that disaster, twelve people were killed when an off-course bulk freighter struck the bridge, causing a section to collapse. As
Word to the wise, University of Auckland: quit while you’re ahead. Here in Australia we’ve already seen the debate over racially segregated spaces at universities played out, and it did not work out well for the segregators. And that was without even a firebrand senior government member on
It’s well established by now that the loudest “climate change” botherers are almost invariably the worst climate offenders. Anecdotally, BFD readers will be familiar with the likes of Izzy Cook, the teenage “climate striker” so deservedly mocked by Heather du Plessis-Allan for her rampant hypocrisy. Quantitatively, university studies have
Oh dear. How very tragic. How will we ever cope? The mainstream media are going broke. No matter how much money they leech off the taxpayer. It’s not just Newshub and TVNZ: even the fattest, greediest media bloodsuckers are getting a good dose of salt. The BBC is set
When is this madness going to end? The derangement of record-high mass immigration is so out of hand that even the bien pensant lefty readers of The Age can see it. Even if the scribblers at Pravda-on-the-Yarra can’t quite bring themselves to. But how much longer can anyone keep
Sooner or later, even the most demented, smooth-brained Climate Cultist has a discomforting collision with reality. Across the world, governments and corporations have been quietly backing away from their “climate commitments”, as they realise, firstly, how ruinously expensive they are, and, secondly, how utterly useless. Car rental giant Hertz is
To we moderns, the people who built the great cathedrals of Europe are incomprehensible. After all, these were constructions which took centuries to build. Why, wonder generations brought up on a lifetime of instant gratification, would anyone work on a building which they, or even their grandchildren, never see finished?
As I wrote some time ago, Ron DeSantis for a while looked like the new Ronald Reagan. In a sense, that’s still true: DeSantis is the closest to a centre-right conservative who might reunite a bitterly divided America. But that’s not what America needs in 2024: things have
Despite Anthony Albanese’s unconvincing pledge not to allow anti-Semitism to “find so much as a foothold” in Australia, it’s horrifyingly obvious that it has not just a foothold, but a stranglehold. Jewish households and businesses are fleeing certain Melbourne suburbs. Mobs chant anti-Semitic, genocidal slogans, with politicians marching
Remember Eric Von Daniken? The Hitler Diaries? The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? All of them were frauds which fooled a great many people for a very long time. Many people still are being willingly duped. Then there’s Bruce Pascoe. Pascoe has been resolutely exposed as a fraud.
