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
How many “lone wolves” before we get to acknowledge that it’s a pack? How long can police and politicians hide behind euphemisms like “religiously motivated violent extremist ideology”, before we’re allowed to tell the truth? Five teenagers – one as young as 14 – have been charged with terrorism related
Australians might have voted overwhelmingly to reject the “Indigenous Voice”, but we’re getting all its worst outcomes, anyway. Mostly courtesy of Labor state governments who are going behind voter’s backs and colluding with dodgy “indigenous” groups. Remember when they lied to our faces that the “Voice” wouldn’t
As I reminded BFD readers, it should not be forgotten that university students were early and enthusiastic adopters of Nazi ideology in the Third Reich. Students, as the Holocaust Encyclopedia relates, “often interrupted lectures, provoked skirmishes, and physically intimidated Jewish students”. They’re at it again. Yes, nearly a century
Those of us of a certain age will remember when global cooling was the big End of the World story of the day. Even the Clash got in on it: The Ice Age is coming! At the time, a bright-eyed young, teenaged me did an internship at a leading scientific
Ranking the greatest philosopher is like ranking the greatest rock band. The same few names will be thrown around, but everyone will argue for their own favourite. For me, the title belongs to Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume. I even have a 19th century engraving of him framed on the
As The BFD has reported, the The Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People, or Cass Review as it’s better known, is shaking the rickety foundations of the Gender tower. Dr Hilary Cass has found that there is no good evidence supporting the fad for
If the polls are anything to go by, Rishi Sunak is the last of a lamentable succession of PMs dragging the Conservatives to an electoral hiding next month. Coming just five years after a landslide win, that’s certainly an achievement, of sorts. On the eve of the election, though,
No doubt like its New Zealand counterpart, the taxpayer-funded left-wing propaganda unit ABC’s Q+A is a dreary leftist circle-jerk. Its idea of “balance” is to set up a single “conservative” panellist to be repeatedly shouted over by a chorus of screeching leftists, and cut off mid-sentence by the
In the 1930s, university students were at the vanguard of the Nazi Reich. The National Socialist German Student League soon became notorious as one of the most antisemitic groups in the Reich. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, “Paramilitary student groups often interrupted lectures, provoked skirmishes, and physically intimidated Jewish students”
