If someone suggested setting fire to a building that was already smouldering, in order to put the fire out, you’d rightly consider them crazy. If someone suffering from mild arsenic poisoning decided to chug a litre of it to cure themselves, you’d lock them up for their own
Many years ago, I found myself “between jobs”, as they say. Mrs Brady, diligently scanning the job ads, found a position open in a health food store. “Must have a commitment to sharing organic and vegan lifestyles”, the ad specified. I pointed out that I was, if anything, diametrically opposed
As I’ve been reporting for The BFD, there’s a huge criminal case underway in Melbourne these last couple of weeks that I wasn’t able to tell you almost anything about. All I’ve been able to tell you is that an activist, who could not be named,
So far in this series we’ve debunked the following “pro-Palestinian” propaganda: that the rapist butchers of Hamas are “resistance fighters”, the obvious stupidity of the Marxist claim that Jews are “settler colonialists” in their own homeland, and the obnoxiously false claim that Israel is an “apartheid state”. A large
Beginning journalism students are warned about the danger of becoming too sympathetic to their sources, thus colouring their objectivity. At worst, journalists are told, they may fall prey to “source capture”: privileging the interests of their sources and pushing a biased narrative. Especially when the source’s interest too-closely align
Back in the early 2000s, Australia was looking down the barrel of what the AMA called “arguably the biggest potential disaster the medical community has ever faced”. Skyrocketing medical indemnity costs were forcing more and more doctors out of practice. A meeting of 5000 doctors in Sydney threatened to pull
Not that long ago, I was engaged in a conversation with that increasingly rarest of creatures: a thoughtful, centre-leftist. An American one, at that. No doubt you’re as astonished as I was. Naturally, the conversation started with the obligatory, rambling diatribe against the Bad Orange Man. “At least he
You’ve got to hand it to them: every time we think the ‘pro-Palestine’ left couldn’t be even more offensively stupid than they already are, they come right out and prove us wrong. Whether it’s hateful numpties like Chloe Swarbrick bellowing the Hamas genocide chant, or obnoxious harpy
Every time a leftist Israel-hater denies being an antisemite, ask them why, out of all the violent, repressive Middle-Eastern dictatorships, the one they singularly obsess about is the only liberal democracy – which also happens to be the only Jewish state. If they can come up with a response at all,
As you may recall, there was a huge story in Australia which I couldn’t tell you much about. No one can: a Victorian judge slapped an almost-total suppression order on it. I can’t tell you much about a new development in the story, either. All I can tell
As I recently reported for The BFD, a claimed new lead in the case of vanished airline MH370 claims to have drastically narrowed the likely crash site. The Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur in 2014. All evidence points to the plane crashing somewhere over the
So far in this series, we’ve debunked the revolting lie that Hamas are ‘resistance fighters’, and the obvious stupidity of the Marxist claim that Jews are ‘settler colonialists’ in their own homeland. As BFD readers are no doubt grimly aware, though, firmly believing the most obvious stupidities is an
As I’ve been reporting for The BFD, Senegal, formerly one of the few stable democracies in Africa, has been steadily sliding into violent misrule. At the heart of the unrest is the decision by incumbent president Macky Sall to postpone the elections due in February, for a proposed 10
If something is true, then it is true in all circumstances. If rape is a crime, then it is a crime, without exception. If racism is wrong in itself, then it is wrong in all circumstances. Things may be ‘morally grey’, but that doesn’t change the truth or otherwise
In the first part of this series debunking the lies of the ‘pro-Palestinian’ lobby, we dealt with perhaps the most loathsome: feting the rapist butchers of Hamas as ‘resistance fighters’. In this second part, we’ll look at the most self-evidently silly: that Jews are somehow ‘settler colonialists’ in their
