In the comedy The Switch, the protagonist early on briefly encounters a homeless person who appears to be narrating his inner thoughts out loud, in a continuous, verbal, stream-of-consciousness. Taxi. Taxi driver. Taxi, taxi, taxi, taxi. Fat, pedaling, hooker-looking bitch. Pig-faced… Pig-faced, gimpy, limping mama. Man-boy. Little man-boy. Beady-eyed little
When it comes to Maltese food, pastizzi are essential. These succulent parcels of crisp, golden, filo-like pastry are the signature Maltese snack, sold as street food and indispensible at family gatherings. There is really nothing else quite like them: spanakopita are perhaps the closest, but pastizzi are in a class
It’s strange how many supposed “mysteries” persist in the popular imagination, long after they’ve been pretty much solved. The Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, the Tunguska explosion, the “Missing Link”. And, of course, how the Great Pyramids were built. There’s not much mystery left about how the pyramids were
It’s quite often said that people got rid of their records and bought CDs, now they’re getting rid of their CDs and buying records. I never did either. I kept all my records and bought CDs. In fact, I bought a bunch of records at bargain prices when
There’s a mania, lately, for “repatriating” museum pieces collected during the “colonial” era. To which should be applied a rule of thumb, first suggested by YouTuber Carl Benjamin: if we had to dig it up, you never wanted it, anyway. Apocryphally, a frustrated Howard Carter reminded stonewalling Egyptian officials
History is littered with the unintended consequences of disastrous environmental policy. However well-meaning. As Michael Crichton outlines, in his novel State of Fear, “management” of Yosemite has lurched from one disaster to another. To protect elk, park managers shot wolves. Elk populations exploded, stripping trees needed by beavers for dam-building.
If you’re a licensed shooter, you’ve no doubt loaned a firearm to a suitably licensed shooter mate, on occasion. In fact, you can do so for up to thirty days without a problem. Except in Tasmania. Here, you may be engaged in “firearms trafficking”. A ruling by Tasmania’
On October 9, 2023, the Australian Greens showed their true colours to Australia and the world. When a Muslim mob attacked a memorial for the October 7 victims, chanting “Gas the Jews!”, Greens politicians marched proudly alongside. This was, remember, before Israel had lifted a finger to respond, so the
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
