“Trust the science!” is the great conceit of the contemporary left. But – leaving aside that the left are awfully picky about science when it comes to, say, gender ideology – how can we “trust the science” when Australia’s peak science body is so obviously trying to baffle us with bullshit?
“Asymmetric warfare” is a well-known concept in international relations – but does it apply in economic warfare as well as military conflict? Asymmetric warfare is war between combatants whose relative military strength, or tactics and strategy differ significantly. Commonly, between professional armies and militias or insurgents. Paradoxically, asymmetric warfare often
The Labor party in Australia is floundering because it’s forgotten who it is meant to be: but the Liberal party is rapidly following them down the slippery slope of blandness. Labor is facing electoral irrelevance because it’s turned its back on the workers. So is the Liberal party.
As the backlash against the Morrison government over its mishandling of the Brereton report grows, the parliamentary gynarchy is swinging into action. The military community are furious that the report, alleging war crimes committed in Afghanistan by Australian Special Forces soldiers, was made public before its allegations were properly investigated.
It’s not just in New Zealand that ham-fisted, bungling Keystone Kops are screwing up firearms registration – and punishing law-abiding gun owners for the Plod’s own failings. As has been laid bare in recent days, NZ police bungling allowed Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant to amass his armoury
Australia’s Islamic representatives are in damage control mode after leading Islamic scholars published a document which generated immediate condemnation. Many critics questioned why Islamic scholars are issuing “guidelines” for something which is already well-defined in Australian law – the law which is supposed to apply to all Australians. For
Ayo Adedoyin mercatornet.com Ayo Adedoyin is Chief Executive of PSJ UK, a humanitarian organisation campaigning against the persecution of Christians and other minorities in Nigeria. You might not know it, but a silent slaughter is currently underway in Nigeria — a slaughter of Nigeria’s Christians. Take Haruna Kuye, a
As asked on The BFD recently, why can’t the media admit that they got it wrong on the Cardinal George Pell case? Australia’s taxpayer-funded media in particular, pursued Pell with a venom we hadn’t seen since they decided Lindy Chamberlain was too frumpy-looking to be
“Chairman Dan” Andrews, the Victorian premier, seems only too willing to turn his state into a puppet of Beijing. He’s got plenty of fellow-travellers working with him behind the scenes. The Andrews government minister who played a key role in negotiations with China over Victoria’s Belt and
Australia is set to pass world-first laws to force tech giants to pay for the content they’ve so far been scraping for free from media companies, as well as sharing their data-collection methods. Is this the last gasp of a dying legacy media – or the first push-
In few policy areas is the yawning dissonance between the elites and ordinary Australians so stark as on immigration. Both major parties, big business and the media just love mass immigration – the more massive the better. Ordinary people, on the other hand, are not so favourable. Opinion poll after poll
With Abdul Nacer Benbrika, the leader of one of Australia’s largest terror cells, nearing the end of his sentence, authorities are facing yet another instance of a growing problem: what to do with jihadis moving back into the general community? The government has cancelled Benbrika’s citizenship as a
Poor old Albo. Labor leader Anthony Albanese seems like a decent enough bloke, it’s just his politics that are lousy – and he’s trying to lead a party that doesn’t know if it’s beer-drinking Arthur or latte-sipping Martha. Except that Labor’s traditional base have
China’s punishing trade war against Australia, in open retaliation for the Morrison government’s backing of an independent international investigation into the origins of the Wuhan virus, is but one face of the reality of dealing with a bullying communist dictatorship. Just as China openly told New Zealand to
The great risk of asymmetrical warfare is that the seemingly more powerful side – usually a nation-state and its regular armed forces – are actually at a severe disadvantage. This is especially true of liberal democracies, whose armed forces are held rigidly to the rules of war, but intensely scrutinised – not
Labor MP Anne Aly touts herself as a “counter-terrorism academic” and “de-radicalisation expert”. Leaving aside that her academic qualifications are in literature and media, it might better be asked: show us the jihadis she’s “de-radicalised”. Perhaps Junaid Thorne, for whom she provided a letter of support
