What is it with coppers and granny-zapping lately? In news that went around the world, police in Australia last week tasered a 95-year-old. The woman died following the incident. “Hold our non-lethal weapon,” say British rozzers. Dementia-suffering woman, 91, ‘handcuffed, hooded and strapped down by Met police’ after cops aim
Louise Pryke Honorary Research Associate University of Sydney Mermaids are multicultural mythical figures, reflecting the continuing human fascination with the sea in stories echoing thousands of years into the past. Mermaids are found in cultures across the globe. In Australia, special water spirits appear in the rock and bark art
sovereignman.com SATIRE In a world brimming with bewildering headlines, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. While our
brownstone.org During the Covid debacle, kids were locked out of school or otherwise condemned to an inferior Zoom education for up to two years. What were the alternatives? Unfortunately, since the New Deal, the federal government has severely restricted teenagers’ opportunities for gainful employment. But new evidence proves that
One of the funniest ratios I’ve seen on Twitter was when a race-baiting activist demanded to “Normalise asking white people where they’re REALLY from”. Whereupon white people flooded her timeline with replies detailing exactly where they and their ancestors for generations were really from. Ancestry has in fact
Michael endoftheamericandream.com Have you “seen the light” yet? As Christianity has declined in the United States, other faiths have moved quickly to fill the void. In previous articles, I have written about the explosive growth that witchcraft and Satanism have both experienced in recent years. But Christianity’s main
The pursuit of a race-based society is repeatedly thrust up my nose. It’s offensive, unnecessary and impossible to justify, but a little historical reflection provides hope. Racial inequality can’t last because it doesn’t actually work. Arbitrarily drawing a line between races to assign superiority and inferiority didn’
mercatornet.com Many moons ago I endured a course entitled “Western Civilization.” The class was way ‘woke’ before anyone knew of the word as a staple of PC discourse. That was because the professor was down on Western civilization and did his utmost to ensure that us callow Western youth
OK guys, and by that I mean all you straight men. I’ve got some really bad news. Brace yourselves. Sports Illustrated has decided to put a dude with boobs on the cover of its swimsuit edition. It’s almost as if the marketing departments have been taken over by
On Friday, the Waatea News reported this: A Maori trade delegation has left to explore new opportunities in South East Asia. The delegation of emerging food and beverage business leaders will visit Singapore and Thailand on a trip organised by the Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whitau Tuhono, with support
“Get Woke, Go Broke,” is the Clown World gift that just keeps on giving the comedy gold. There’s not a lot to smile about, it seems, these days — but watching one clueless corporate after another pay the price of listening to the Millennial Communications grad in Marketing is one
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve been in Scotland in recent weeks looking at some buildings for sale and was an unintended bemused TV spectator of the coronation, a farcical Gilbert and Sullivan event overlaid with some Verdi flippery. All week, Britain’s best newspaper, Rupert Murdoch’s The
There’s a certain irony in elites finger-wagging we hoi polloi about “disinformation”. After all, they’re the ones telling us that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”. Or funding the demented Kate Hannah prattling that healthy food and little blond girls are “right-wing extremism” and rewarding a creepy
mercatornet.com Sales of Bud Light beer tanked by 21.4 per cent in the fallout of the Dylan Mulvaney saga. Apparently frat boys don’t particularly relate to a creepy man prancing about in pink teenage girl costumes. While big brand Anheuser-Busch has claimed their Bud Light blunder was
mercatornet.com The squalid court case just ended over an alleged sexual encounter in the mid-90s between Donald Trump and a saleswoman in a shop fitting room was always likely to end badly for him. Bizarre as the episode sounded, any accusation would seem credible given Trump’s own record
There was a good reason Dame Edna Everage hailed from the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds. Melbourne was, after all, the home of her creator. Like Australia’s beloved television family The Sullivans, Barry Humphries grew up in the comfortably middle-class suburb of Camberwell in the 1930s. Dame Edna was
