The governing conceit of the left’s now-default ideology, identity politics, is that a person’s identity determines everything about them. Most especially what and how they should think. So, naturally, when one of the left’s favoured identity groups steps out of line, the denunciation is as punishing and
Listen, New Zealand: I know we’re sibling rivals and all, but, jeez, you lot can be precious sometimes. You know, we let you win the rugby because it’s a sport hardly anyone in Australia actually cares about. (Instead of copying the Poms and buggering each other as a
As we have seen from the outset of the Wuhan plague, politicians and bureaucrats around the world have uniformly implemented the worst possible policies and completely refused to learn from their failures. In lockstep, their camp-followers on the left have dutifully cheered on official stupidity and viciously attacked dissenters. As
The Australian Labor Party’s union base has long been its greatest strength – and, often, its greatest handicap. In 1963, a photo emerged of the then Labor leader Arthur Calwell, and his deputy, Gough Whitlam, standing in the dark outside the Kingston Hotel in Canberra, waiting to be told by
We at The BFD have been reporting it for over a year, now – and finally, the mainstream media are beginning, ever so slowly, to catch on. What I’m talking about is the now-undeniable evidence that lockdowns do not work. New Zealand’s ‘COVID Queen’ might like to boast that
Harry S Truman famously had a sign on his desk: “The Buck Stops Here”. Daniel Andrews, on the other hand, is obviously determined that the buck will stop anywhere and everywhere but his own desk. The roster of heads that have rolled over Victoria’s hotel quarantine disaster is beginning
As New Zealand slowly wakes up to the fact that its government is attempting to impose racial separatism by stealth, it may be cold comfort to Kiwis to know that it’s being done more or less openly in Australia. In New Zealand, the separatist agenda has been exposed – for
Viv Forbes The UK has seen many waves of invaders and colonisers – Neanderthals, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Norsemen, Normans and more recently Indians and Pakistanis. Only Irish, Welsh and Scottish inhabitants have had the strength to get special recognition today. No human race evolved in Australia – several races
You can tell a lot about someone by the friends they cultivate. Friends, after all, are the people you pick, unlike your family. Australia and New Zealand are family: a pair of occasionally squabbling siblings who’ve nevertheless spent the last century more or less getting along under the same
Naomi Levin aijac.org.au Australia’s foreign aid to the Palestinian Territories has been cut by 25% over the past year, with funding redirected and long-running programs brought to an end. The cuts – from $44.1 million in 2019/20 to $29.8 million in 2020/21 – are due
You have to admire Geoffrey Blainey’s courage. His academic career was practically ended when he dared to stick his head ever so slightly above the parapet in the 1980s and murmur that perhaps unending mass immigration might be a strain on social cohesion. Perhaps appropriately for a historian, Blainey
As I’ve written several times, Australians are simultaneously blessed and cursed with two Scott Morrisons. On the blessed side, Morrison, more than ably backed by Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Peter Dutton, has shown the sort of steel against China that Australians have long been crying out
Gladys Berejiklian is generally regarded as one of Australia’s more sensible politicians. Apart from a notable lack of judgement in turning a studiously blind eye to a former boyfriend’s corrupt land dealings, the NSW premier mostly seems to live up to her image: a bit boring, but competent
The left have long venerated Scandinavia as a model of “democratic socialism”, even though Scandinavian countries aren’t remotely socialist. A fact that former Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen was at pains to point out to Bernie Sanders in 2015. But hey, there’s still the left’s beloved
The French used to refer to sadomasochism as le vice Anglais, hinting that infant exposure to harshly disciplinarian nannies bestowed the English upper-classes with a fetish for sexual humiliation. Watching the sad decline of Prince Harry – once a hulking, military blue-blood, now a snivelling, wet ginger, a George Roper in
In a key scene in Orson Welles’s classic Citizen Kane, an outraged trustee confronts Kane at a party celebrating his purchase of a newspaper. The newspaper is a bad investment, he warns: it lost a million dollars in just the last year. Far from being chastened, Kane replies: “You’
