“Simpsons did it!” is a South Park joke that just keeps coming true. After all, a topical satire which has run for 35 years, 761 episodes, a feature film, and videogame and comic book adaptations, is inevitably going to cover nearly every topic imaginable. 9/11, the Trump presidency, even
There are few wider gulfs ‘twixt self-regard and reality than exist in the minds of mainstream media journalists. In their own minds, they’re still running All the President’s Men and Network on loop, imagining themselves as the lone, brave heroes “speaking truth to power”. To the rest of
Tasmania’s election is done, if not yet dusted, and the result is a warning shot for both major parties at the federal level. Of course, Tasmania’s hare-brained Hare-Clark election system, which makes MMP look almost rigorous, doesn’t help. This is a system which actually punishes electoral success
The Albanese government is in grave political danger — and seems as blithely unaware of it as they were of the groundswell of opposition to the Voice referendum. For all his chutzpah, Anthony Albanese seems too often to forget that his government was elected with the second-lowest Labor vote in the
No doubt, being a more discerning group of media consumers than most, BFD readers already practise my Third Law of the Media: Always assume that ‘fact-checkers’ are trying to bullshit you. Especially when it’s a government-funded ‘fact-checker’. Especially when it’s Australia’s very own taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda unit.
It was nearly two years ago that I dubbed social media companies the Big Tobacco of the 21st century. I was writing in response to leaked internal research from Facebook and Instagram parent company, Meta, which showed that they were well aware of the harmful effects their products have on
Never mistake a Climate Cultist for someone who actually cares about the environment. After all, someone who genuinely cared about the environment wouldn’t be burying vast acres of rural landscape under deserts of aluminium and glass. Anyone who genuinely cared about wildlife wouldn’t be erecting vast fields of
Half the world’s population are going to the polls over the next year or so – but only because the globalist elite have yet to figure out a way they can stop even pretending and do away with the annoyance of elections altogether. Because, when they do have to grit
There are some must-see events unfolding in our skies in 2024. Unfortunately, for those in the Southern Hemisphere, some of them won’t be seen, such as the upcoming total solar eclipse over North America. Still, there are a few night-sky spectaculars coming up for us southerners. If you’re
They just won’t learn. Yet another multi-billion dollar corporation has shed a massive slice of its value, just to pander to creepy autogynephile men. Whether it’s Bud Light, Hershey, Gillette or Adidas, companies continue to pay more attention to their uselessly parastic ‘DEI officers’ and ignore their infuriated
Grab the popcorn, the left are about to start fighting again. Once again, the in-fighting is brought on as a consequence of unions actually remembering to back the interests of workers rather than inner-city, laptop-class leftists. Major unions are pressing the federal government to reduce the ability of “clueless activists”
Success, as they say, has many friends, while failure is an orphan. And when the grandiose schemes of the unelected elites go bung, they vanish faster than a black father who went to the store to buy cigarettes. Where, after all, have all those “experts” who showered their wisdom on
As I wrote recently, the repeated insistence that illegal immigrants in the US are less likely to commit crimes than citizens is a myth based entirely on a handful of crank “studies” by a single pro-open borders activist. Nevertheless, by dint of endlessly repeating the lie, the left-media have erected
The famous saying is: “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog”. Kevin Rudd might want to start touring the animal shelters for a mate or two. The congressional Republicans most likely to come to Kevin Rudd’s defence after he endured sharp criticism from Donald Trump have
Remember when Jacinda Ardern wanted to make “happiness” the centrepiece of her achievements? First, there was the “wellbeing” budget, then “Gross National Happiness” — a measure, curiously, only elsewhere used in the Kingdom of Bhutan. More about that later. So, how did New Zealanders’ happiness fare, under the benevolent iron fist
