Why would anyone trust police in Victoria any more? Politicised, corrupt and hypocritical, VicPol’s reputation has been battered on all fronts over the past few years. It wasn’t just the naked brutality of the Covid era, when Victoria Police rolled out assault vehicles and locked down the skies,
The first step to addressing a problem is telling the truth about it. As alcoholics will tell you, admitting the problem is the first step. Nothing meaningful can be done unless you proceed from a basis of truth. That includes correctly and unflinchingly addressing the truth of the root problem.
There are two lessons from this week’s protests against “gender violence”. The first is one I’ve mentioned many times before: politicians who set loose the dogs of scandal should beware lest the dogs turn on them. The second is that a certain cohort, largely but not exclusively, simply
Reflecting on a walk in Montreal, a typically “multicultural” Western city, Mark Steyn noticed a Muslim covered, head to toe, in black. She was walking past a garish, gay condom boutique. “It was a perfect snapshot of the internal contradictions of multicultural diversity,” says Steyn. In 30 years’ time, either
Did contemporary Western culture peak in the 90s? Nostalgia is a fickle beast and there is a strong tendency to valorise one’s 20s as the best of any era. But I was in my 30s in the 90s. Much as I loved the 80s, there was a lot about
Is there anything that a government scheme can’t make worse? The roster of government “remedies” making bad situations infinitely worse is so long that only a few of the most recent examples need suffice. Kiwibuild. Covid. The GFC. The NDIS. Climate Change. I think we get the picture. On
Back in the heyday of the ISIS “Caliphate”, Australian-born jihadi Khaled Sharrouf proudly posted photos of his seven-year-old son holding up a severed head. The Islamic happy-snaps provoked much horror and disbelief. How could even small children be so driven to violent hate, the chatterers wailed.
They’ve spawned books by the thousands and movie and true-crime documentaries by the hundreds, but is the Golden Age of the Serial Killer coming to an end? Serial murder is nothing new, of course. Records of what are now recognised as serial killings go back as far as
In an entry of his sadly discontinued Black Steam Train blog, Dallas Scott recounted the experience of appearing on SBS-TV alongside a panel of pale-faced ‘box ticker’ fauxborigines. I watched young, white identifiers roundly proclaim their connection to, and knowledge of, their ‘culture’, then turn around not five
The only reason leftist activists keep gluing themselves to roads and defacing great artworks and war memorials is because they almost never face consequences for their appalling, often criminal, behaviour. In contrast to the show trials of the J6 protesters, nearly all of the violent Antifa rioters who turned Washington
The Sunak government’s final victory this week in its plan to deport ‘asylum seekers’ was long delayed – a sign of how activist judges and boat-chasing lawyers clog the machinery of democracy seemingly to their hearts’ content. Australia has seen more than its share of these unelected elitists thwarting
In Australian author Greig Beck’s ripping Lost World Primordia series, a group of moderns are time-transported into the primeval South American jungle. They encounter all sorts of prehistoric beasties, all very much alive and hungry. But the ‘boss’ monster is a terrifying gigantic snake: the aptly named Titanoboa:
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
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
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
