Readers take note: April Fool’s Day was over a month ago, so it’s not a hoax when I write this: I finally agree with something Waleed Aly says. Long time BFD readers will know just what sort of contempt I hold for little Wally, but even a stopped
What is it with doddering old left-wing politicians savaging their countries’ closest allies? OK, granted, Bob Carr is retired from active politics, but his influence in Labor politics remains immense. So, when Carr attacks the New Zealand government over its possible joining of AUKUS, you can bet people in Labor
Once again student leftists are at the “find out” stage, after their latest outburst of fucking around. First, it was prestigious law firms going on record that they would decline to hire graduates of formerly prestigious Ivy League colleges: A number of large law firms have already signalled their increasing
I’ve said it multiple times. Each time I’m joking less and less: it’s time to bulldoze the universities. By which I definitely do not mean we should turn our backs on what universities are meant to stand for, higher education and free inquiry. But it’s been
Are they ready yet to admit that multiculturalism has failed? That it was always going to fail, because it’s a dangerously flawed ideology? As poet Les Murray wrote, the worst ethnic chauvinists are the purest multiculturalists. “All’s permitted… when they migrate.” Australia is reaping the failure of multiculturalism
Rarely has Labor’s doublespeak been so baldly exposed than this week. At the very same time that Anthony Albanese and his minions were blatherskiting about violence against women, yet another of the foreign criminals they turned loose on the Australian community bashed an elderly woman within an inch of
It looks as if the backlash against the ‘rainbow’ groomers is really hitting its stride. The only surprise is that it’s taken this long. Of course, the only reason the groomers got away with what they did for even this long is because most people blindly accepted the mantra
And another one down, another down, another one bites the dust… Remember when you were a crazy conspiracy theorist for calling AstraZeneca the “clot shot”? It was foolish, of course, to maintain that people were dropping dead in droves with blood clots following AstraZeneca vaccination, but that there did seem
Hoo, boy — for a party which makes such a big song and dance about its purity, the Greens sure do seem to attract the worst people. Not just frock-stealers and (alleged) modern-day slavers, but, here in Australia, alleged rapists, sexual harassers, self-confessed shoplifters and drug users, and defenders of bestiality
Yes, folks, just as I predicted, the circus is far from over: Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins are going to keep scandal-mongering journalism (present company excepted, hem-hem) well-supplied for a good while, yet. In a new twist, Aussie taxpayers might be wondering where the $2.4m of their tax money
When even the dim bulbs of The Economist come out against a bien pensant leftist icon, you really know they’ve screwed up. So, its recent scathing review of Judith Butler’s latest book is perhaps as sure a prodigy as any that even the NPCs are ready to call
Why would anyone trust police in Victoria any more? Politicised, corrupt and hypocritical, VicPol’s reputation has been battered on all fronts over the past few years. It wasn’t just the naked brutality of the Covid era, when Victoria Police rolled out assault vehicles and locked down the skies,
The first step to addressing a problem is telling the truth about it. As alcoholics will tell you, admitting the problem is the first step. Nothing meaningful can be done unless you proceed from a basis of truth. That includes correctly and unflinchingly addressing the truth of the root problem.
There are two lessons from this week’s protests against “gender violence”. The first is one I’ve mentioned many times before: politicians who set loose the dogs of scandal should beware lest the dogs turn on them. The second is that a certain cohort, largely but not exclusively, simply
Reflecting on a walk in Montreal, a typically “multicultural” Western city, Mark Steyn noticed a Muslim covered, head to toe, in black. She was walking past a garish, gay condom boutique. “It was a perfect snapshot of the internal contradictions of multicultural diversity,” says Steyn. In 30 years’ time, either
Did contemporary Western culture peak in the 90s? Nostalgia is a fickle beast and there is a strong tendency to valorise one’s 20s as the best of any era. But I was in my 30s in the 90s. Much as I loved the 80s, there was a lot about
