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
Is there anything that a government scheme can’t make worse? The roster of government “remedies” making bad situations infinitely worse is so long that only a few of the most recent examples need suffice. Kiwibuild. Covid. The GFC. The NDIS. Climate Change. I think we get the picture. On
Back in the heyday of the ISIS “Caliphate”, Australian-born jihadi Khaled Sharrouf proudly posted photos of his seven-year-old son holding up a severed head. The Islamic happy-snaps provoked much horror and disbelief. How could even small children be so driven to violent hate, the chatterers wailed. Like this. The sight
They’ve spawned books by the thousands and movie and true-crime documentaries by the hundreds, but is the Golden Age of the Serial Killer coming to an end? Serial murder is nothing new, of course. Records of what are now recognised as serial killings go back as far as Chinese
In an entry of his sadly discontinued Black Steam Train blog, Dallas Scott recounted the experience of appearing on SBS-TV alongside a panel of pale-faced ‘box ticker’ fauxborigines. I watched young, white identifiers roundly proclaim their connection to, and knowledge of, their ‘culture’, then turn around not five minutes later
The only reason leftist activists keep gluing themselves to roads and defacing great artworks and war memorials is because they almost never face consequences for their appalling, often criminal, behaviour. In contrast to the show trials of the J6 protesters, nearly all of the violent Antifa rioters who turned Washington
The Sunak government’s final victory this week in its plan to deport ‘asylum seekers’ was long delayed – a sign of how activist judges and boat-chasing lawyers clog the machinery of democracy seemingly to their hearts’ content. Australia has seen more than its share of these unelected elitists thwarting the
In Australian author Greig Beck’s ripping Lost World Primordia series, a group of moderns are time-transported into the primeval South American jungle. They encounter all sorts of prehistoric beasties, all very much alive and hungry. But the ‘boss’ monster is a terrifying gigantic snake: the aptly named Titanoboa: 14m
It’s often said that all Western philosophy is ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’. Of course, Plato was the successor to Socrates (and if you pronounced that ‘Soh-krayts’, you’re clearly a person of culture and distinction), and the contemporary of Aristotle, but it’s certainly indisputable that Plato’
This salsa is a basic sauce that can be used for just about anything you’d use a rich, tomato-based sauce for. In Maltese cooking, it’s most often slathered on top of fried fish. If you grow your own tomatoes, this is a perfect recipe to use up all
Imagine if the “Voice” referendum had actually passed — well, what, exactly, would have been any different? Because, day by day, we’re seeing imposed by stealth exactly what Australians rejected so emphatically at the ballot box. Not least the very thing which so many cited as their primary reason for
As the Albanese government digs in ever deeper on Labor’s latest attempt to impose censorship (never forget that Julia Gillard tried to impose a government censor on the media), it’s worth asking: why? Why is Labor so especially determined to censor footage of a Muslim extremist stabbing a
When Christopher Hitchens met Margaret Thatcher, whom he then regarded as the Devil incarnate, he came away with “the uneasy but unbanishable feeling that on some essential matters she might be right”. Similarly, back when I was young and naive (i.e. stupid) enough to still believe in left-wing politics,
With approximately half the world to go to the polls over the next year, the left-media are wringing their hands in despair at the march of the “far right”. By which, of course, they mean anyone slightly to the left of Marx, Marcuse and Fanon. From Argentina to Europe, voters
The disgraceful hijacking of Anzac Day services by anti-Jewish leftists — particularly galling, given that Australia’s brilliant WWI commander, John Monash, was Jewish — are proof that, even as we solemnly commemorate Anzac Day, we are in grave danger of forgetting just why it is so important. The Gallipoli landings were
