“Scotty from Marketing” is yet another inane hashtag sneer from the Twitter left. If only it wasn’t so damned on-point. On the one hand, Scott Morrison genuinely deserves to be lauded for holding a strong line against China’s trade and diplomatic bullying. On the other, domestic, front, though,
They seek them here, they seek them there: those lefties, they search everywhere. Are they on Twitter? Or are they on Telegram? Those damned elusive “Far-Right” bogey-men. We keep getting told that “far-right extremists” are a bigger threat than Islamic terrorism. Just ignore the facts. Despite over a decade of
It’s as predictable as a pigeon pooing on a freshly-washed car. It’s the highlight of every leftist miseryguts’s year: whinging and carping about Australia Day. As in so much else surrounding “indigenous issues”, there’s a glaring disconnect between the virtue-signalling parades of city-based, overwhelmingly white, leftists
Have our politicians and bureaucrats gone collectively insane? Or are they just so hopelessly addicted to the absolute power they’ve seized, courtesy of the Chinese virus, that they will do absolutely anything to get another fix? How else can you explain the madness that is sending public policy screaming
The extraordinary intervention of the government of “New Xi-Land” (as one tabloid dubbed it) in China’s trade and diplomatic war assault on Australia has not gone unnoticed. As I wrote for The BFD, Jacinda Ardern and her government appear to have decided just whose side they’re on – and
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Scanning the annals of history, it’s rather telling that a bare handful of dictators, left or right, have voluntarily ceded their power. Pinochet or King Juan Carlos I, for instance, or Daniel Ortega or Julius Nyerere. Further back, perhaps George Washington, or his
Even a busted Labor party two-bob watch can be right at least once a day. Sadly, that’s about the best spin I can put on Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles’s attack on PM Scott Morrison over borders. Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles has accused Scott Morrison of putting
Mao famously shrugged off the news of millions of deaths in the Great Leap Forward by saying, “If you cut off one finger, you still have nine”. Frankly, Mao was an amateur at such callous spin-doctoring, compared to modern-day leftists like the “Chairman Dan” Andrews. What Mao should have said
Another day in Australia, another incompetent state government panicking and slamming down the iron fist of lockdowns, after its own mismanagement allows the Chinese virus to break forth once more. Every major outbreak of the Wuhan plague in Australia can be traced back to a failure by government, from the
How does Twiggy Forrest sleep with himself? I mean, probably on Charlotte Thomas “Bespoke” bedsheets, made with merino wool, 1000-count Egyptian cotton and 22-carat gold thread, sure. At the same time, though, one can’t help but wonder if he is ever troubled by the yawning disconnect between his much-trumpeted
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Politicians and bureaucrats are the walking embodiments of the Peter Principle, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their “level of incompetence”. What this means is that people who are competent in one area are promoted until they wind up in an area in which they
