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There’s one good thing you can say about a selfish person: they’re reliable. No matter what, you can rely on them to look after Number One. The mainstream media are self-centred to the core. So they’ll speak lies for power until the cows come home – until it’
Like most of us on the wrong side of a half-century, I’ve got “me pills” to take. Not many and nothing particularly serious, but they make life a lot easier (although apparently no-one has yet developed a pill for making a symphony of groaning noises when getting off the
It is easy for a lazy, bootlicking mainstream media to sneer at the protesters in Melbourne as “anti-vaxxers”, “right-wing” and even “white supremacists” (yes, our publicly-funded broadcaster seriously made this claim on their flagship current affairs show), but the truth is a lot more complex. But complexity isn’t something
Many moons ago, I wrote of two different ideas of freedom: “freedom from” and “freedom to”. “Freedom from” is the over-arching principle of that great document of liberty, the US Constitution. “Freedom from” is the principle that freedom means to be free from restriction. “Freedom to” is the competing principle
I was shocked to see paramilitary police firing rubber bullets on the steps of Flinders Street Station. Words cannot describe what I felt at watching marching ranks of heavily-armoured police, rifles cracking fire, smoke from tear gas grenades swirling around them, swarming onto the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance.
As the protests in Melbourne continue for a third day, a socialist government spiralling out of control sets the spin cycle to 11. The thuggish, far-left boss of the union once led by an avowed Maoist, screeched that his own rank-and-file are “fascists”. The nurses’ union dutifully ran cover for
One thing you can’t accuse the Australian or New Zealand governments of is quick thinking. Despite her retrospective claims of “hardernurly” lockdowns in 2020, the timeline shows that Jacinda Ardern dithered for weeks before announcing the first Level 4 lockdowns. Not coincidentally, the first lockdowns occurred around the time
There’s an old anecdote about a visitor to Maoist China noting all the workers toiling with buckets and spades to dig a massive dam. Why not get a couple of bulldozers? he asks. Because, the cadre replies, then we wouldn’t have full employment. It’s easy to laugh
Watching the violent protests in Melbourne on Monday it was easy to imagine we’d been transported to 1980s Belfast. Reading the media-political reaction, it was even easier to imagine that we were back in the USSR. If the sight of paramilitary police firing rubber bullets at protesters isn’t
Information This article was submitted to both NZ Herald and The Spinoff. Obviously, it didn’t suit their narrative. “You’ve got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.” Betty Boothroyd, Former Speaker of the House of Commons.
