“De-radicalisation” seems to be about as effective as taking homeopathic medicine to mend a severed limb. The list of supposedly “de-radicalised” swivel-eyed Islamic fanatics who went on to get all jihad-y is longer than an arm and a leg piled up in the rubble of a suicide bombing. Parsons Green
If China thought that they would whip Australia into submission with their trade and diplomatic war, it’s starting to look as if they made a big boo-boo. Firstly, in an admirable display of fortitude, the Morrison government has ignored the incessant yapping of China-compromised Labor and the white-anting by
The cloud of mendaciousness and elitist obfuscation around the “Indigenous Voice” push grows ever denser and more malodorous. The longer this latest leftist fad plays out, the more it comes to resemble the 1999 Republican referendum: an activists’ picnic, no ordinary Australians allowed. We’re supposed to wait for whatever
Viv Forbes Washpool, Queensland, Australia Viv Forbes has qualifications in applied science and financial analysis and experience in industry and government. He earns no income from coal, oil or gas but does have solar panels on his shed. While the West wages war on coal, hydro-carbons power China’s industrial
The history of animal activism is littered with idiotic stunts by people who clearly don’t actually know that much about the animals they profess to love – stunts which more often than not backfire spectacularly. Last year, vegan nutcases stole a goat from a Victorian farm; in short order, the
It’s a tough enough battle defending free speech against the censorious left. It’s even worse when gutless so-called “conservatives” take their side. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity,” indeed. Politicians such as the Australian Prime Minister have constantly demanded more social
Australian students are ignorant but woke: just the way the Long March left intended. That’s the depressing conclusion to be gleaned from the latest assessment of Australian secondary students’ knowledge of civics – the basic skill set of a liberal democracy. Most secondary students lack the basic knowledge and skills
These unelected Little Hitlers are drunk on power. As I reported recently, Western Australia has become an elected dictatorship, but much of the rest of Australia has given up even the pretence of elected representation. Instead, elected governments have handed decision-making over to unelected bureaucrats; and, having got their claws
As Victoria edges ever closer to the abyss of a new round of COVID infections, the Victorian authorities are once again struggling to differentiate their arses from their elbows. As reported earlier by The BFD, just a handful of new cases saw the government’s contact tracing regime fall to
Last year, New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade took the extraordinary step of briefing the Minister of Foreign Affairs about hate and incitement to violence being taught in United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) schools partly funded by New Zealand. MFAT waved away
“I knew you would sell your mother for an Etruscan vase. But I didn’t know you would sell out your country and your soul… to the slime of humanity” Prof. Henry Jones (Sean Connery), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. There’s been plenty of back-and-forth over the merits
As The BFD reported recently, the Victorian government is teetering on the edge of making exactly the same mistakes which resulted in the Wuhan plague outbreak last year. The outbreak which resulted in the government imposing the first military curfew in Melbourne’s history, and plainclothes goons handcuffing a pregnant
The road to Hell, as the saying goes, is paved with good intentions. And it’s paid for and laid out and maintained by ‘kind’ and ‘well-meaning’ busybodies who think it’s their state-given right to pry and interfere and impose their own, bigoted version of morality on everyone else.
It’s not hard to notice that the “progressive” left has a rather problematic relationship with religion. Not to put to fine a point on it, they hate religion. It’s all “sky fairy” myths and child abuse and holding humanity back from reaching the great, communist, Star Trek sci-fi
As I recently wrote, Australia has, like it or not, become the pivotal power in facing down China. China’s diplomatic and trade bullying of Australia, and the Morrison government’s firm resolve not to cave, has made us the focus of global efforts to check the increasing efforts of
There’s not too many silver linings to be found in a global pandemic, even one as ridiculously over-hyped by doom-mongering “experts” as the Wuhan flu. But, just as even the Black Death had the surviving side-effect of providing a boost to the rights and wages of low-status workers, the
