When you live in a Clown World, it’s inevitably a case of in memo veritas. We’re all used to seeing this week’s Babylon Bee satire become next week’s news. But when yesterday’s meme (literally) is today’s news, we’re not just in Clown World:
It’s been a very, very, very good week for the Trump campaign. Ever since the presidential debate made Joe Biden’s senile decay so screamingly obvious that even the mainstream media couldn’t lie about it any more (though plenty of them are still giving it the ol’ college
Too many bad ideas are allowed to fester unchallenged because, as George Orwell wrote, “the average human being never bothers to examine catchwords”. We see the truth of Orwell’s observation all around us these days. Whether it’s the media throwing around slurs like ‘far right’, or activists shouting
The good thing about most fads is that it’s pretty easy to move on. For those of us who lived before the age of social media, most of our faddish past stays mercifully buried in old photo albums and the long memories of our friends. Some fads, though, are
Well, it looks like Andrew Forrest has learned a thing or two indeed from his paymasters in China. Not just how to literally sell your country to a foreign power, or how to undermine your own, democratically elected government by toadying to the bully-boys of communist dictatorships. Now, his
The Dutton opposition in Australia is going big and bold. Ever since John Hewson was belted so thoroughly in 1993 for daring to lay out his policies in detail two years out from an election, the received wisdom has been small-target strategy. Don’t tell anyone what your policies
In 1900, sponge divers found a submerged wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. The wreck was a treasure trove, yielding bronze and marble statues, pottery, glassware, jewellery and coins. And a strange lump of corroded bronze and wood. When the finds were sent to the National Museum of Archaeology
He may be as white as the driven snow, but Bruce Pascoe is certainly keeping himself very nicely in the black. Mostly courtesy of the taxpayer, it seems. But then, we’re only too used to being bilked by phony “Aborigines”. But when they have the cheek to go begging
For the past few decades, Western countries have been manipulated into the sort of massive social-engineering programmes once associated with totalitarian communist states: the mass farming out of child rearing to the state. The Soviets and the Maoists were very big on creches, so that the workers could slave
The unspeakable atrocity of 9/11 has certainly spawned more than its fair share of silly conspiracy theories. But probably the most damaging one is the official one: that al Qaeda acted alone. That, it appears, is a lie. It’s a lie that should have been exposed almost immediately
Australia doesn’t have a waka-jumping law, but it often feels like we need one. Time and again, political nobodies scrape together a few hundred votes courtesy of being included at the bottom rung of a party ticket. Having exploited the party name, they proceed to use it as
As I’ve written many times, the Brittany Higgins saga is the circus that just won’t quit. And now we’re getting the high divin’ act riding bareback on a pony. When the whole affair erupted into public view, it was hard not to suspect that there was a
In the US, the Democrats and their lickspittles are bragging that the economy is doing just fine. In Australia, Treasurer Jim Chalmers claims that the government is keeping inflation in check and mainstream media seals hork a chorus of agreement. Just don’t you believe your lyin’ eyes about the
You have to laugh at the mainstream media sometimes. They’re so obviously desperate. Especially when they think everyone else is as dumb as the lefty peanut gallery they’re playing to. No matter how hard they try to spin a story, the spin is just too obvious. Case in
Yet again, it must be asked, just who do Fatima Payman and Mehreen Faruqi represent? The people of WA and NSW, or Gaza and Hamas? Payman, the “accidental senator” elected by a micro-vote on a Labor Party ticket, has thrown the Albanese government into turmoil by defecting over the
Life’s a funny old thing when you’re a former Dear Leader of the Covid Cult who’s retired from government and hoping to just slip quietly into the shadows. One minute, you’re getting fast-tracked for a gong by your Labor mates, the next, an old scandal
