As Thomas Sowell notes, “intellectuals” are insulated from the consequences of their faddish monomanias in a way that almost no other profession is. As one leftist “intellectual” fad after another, from eugenics to communism, has collapsed in ignominy and misery, those responsible for festering these madnesses simply sail gaily on
BFD readers no doubt belong to that vast majority of happy folk, greatly to be envied, who neither know nor care who Elizabeth Farrelly is. So I must apologise for bursting your bubbles of blissful ignorance. If there was a pictorial calendar of watermelons, Farrelly would be its cover girl.
Legendary newspaperman Wilbur F. Storey famously said, “It is a newspaper’s duty to print the news and raise hell”. The left-media are conspicuously failing in their duty. The left-media don’t do “facts” any more: as leftist rag The Saturday Paper puts it, they do “narrative journalism”
When I was a lad, Mum told me something about bullies: they’re only tough when they’re in a pack. They don’t have the guts to mouth off when they’re on their own, she said. For all her prattle about “kindness”, Jacinda Ardern is acting a lot
Jacinda Ardern got off on the wrong foot at Tuvalu, the theme this year is “Securing our Future in the Pacific” which, as you will have guessed, is primarily about climate change and how much money will change hands to address it. Ardern did not hold back from raising her
At least some of the useful idiots of Australian academia seem to be belatedly waking up to the fact that all that sweet, sweet Chinese money they’ve been gobbling blindly comes with some very cutting strings attached. The very people who indignantly screech about their “academic freedom!” when a
If, by some miracle, you know someone in Canberra who isn’t on the public payroll, it doesn’t take much to wind them up and set them going on about the staggering self-regard of the public service. Why, to hear the locals tell it, Australia’s public servants
As I’ve written before, politicians on all sides know exactly what Australians think about migration – and take absolutely no notice. Survey after survey shows that Australians are fed up with ever-spiralling migration – not, as the elite would have it, because of “racism”, but because Australians are sick to
As the push by radical “transgender” activists grows ever more shrill and demented, the push-back from parents and some politicians is growing stronger. After being blindsided by the transgender Blitzkrieg of the Waffen Cross-Dress, the forces of sanity and reason are at last finding their voice. They’re
Is Scott Morrison handing out half a billion dollars in “go-away” money? Or buying Pacific loyalty? Of course, it would impolite to tell the blunt truth these days. Instead, it’s being diplomatically described as “climate change funding”. Scott Morrison will announce $500 million in climate change funding when
As New Zealand goes through its current abortion debate, Kiwis can perhaps take some cold comfort that, across the Tasman, a very similar debate is being played out in the Australian state of New South Wales. Just as in New Zealand, the debate is no less contentious nor short of
The late great Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen is regarded as a hero and an anti-hero, depending upon what side of the political fence you sit. For myself, I always sat in the Joh camp and he and Lady Flo were the reason I left my beloved
North Carolina congressman Mark Meadows says President Donald Trump was “right to stand firm” on his withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement.
Over the past few years, radical transgender activists have launched a societal blitzkrieg on almost every facet of Western society. No one, no aspect of society is safe from these cross-dressing obsessives. Schools have been turned into Marxist re-education camps, women’s prisons are forced to accommodate rapists
Despite the image of the rugged Aussie bushman, Australia has long been one of the most urbanised societies in the world. Even in 1889, the narrator of Banjo Paterson’s Clancy of the Overflow, “sitting in my dingy little office…[in] the dusty, dirty city” was more typical of the
As Brexit has shown beyond all doubt, the media-political elite regard voters with utter disdain. At best, they regard voters as an annoying inconvenience: an annoyance to be herded to the polls to dutifully rubber-stamp whatever their superiors have deigned to put before them as “election issues”. Otherwise,
