As I’ve written before, social media companies are the Big Tobacco of the 2000s. Their own research shows that they know their products are extremely harmful to (mental) health, especially for impressionable children and teens, especially girls — but they continue to market to them anyway. And if social media
Another election, another defeat for the globalist elite. No wonder Plato used to grumble about democracy: the son of old aristocracy just couldn’t stand the hoi polloi getting a say in running their own lives. Today’s elites are no less sour-pussed, when the filthy plebs reject yet another
As I wrote recently, The Truth Is Always True: a principle doesn’t change just because of your personal biases. This is as true of human rights as any other moral principle. Universal human rights are called that because they are universal: they apply to everyone, under all circumstances. They
The leftist echo chamber continues to shill for its own. Just last week, The BFD reported that disgraced former Canberra top prosecutor Shane Drumgold is now teaching law students at Canberra University. Even more galling, the lawyer who was found by two inquiries to have withheld evidence, and knowingly lied
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 claims that Israel is an “apartheid state” which is
If you ask people who watch a lot of television who the smartest scientist in history was, they’ll almost certainly say either Stephen Hawking or, God help us, Neil deGrasse Tyson. If you’re lucky, they might recall Albert Einstein. But, while at least Hawking was undoubtedly very smart,
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,
