Peter McNeil Distinguished Professor of Design History University of Technology Sydney In today’s world, it could be said, to a certain degree, that even a relatively impoverished person engages with luxury, in some way. If you enjoy regulated heating or cooling at home, regular lighting, chicken meat, or eat
Who doesn’t love a good old sex scandal? Well, apart from possibly at least one of the parties caught up in it. Although at least one target of a Fleet Street sex scandal responded with a splendidly insouciant, “So what?”, most of us would be at least embarrassed to
All of us who had the good fortune to grow up when Sunday school was a given, and so imbibed to at least some degree what is one of the key foundations of Western civilisation, Christian culture, know the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. So vivid is the Old Testament
Tiger Charles Bean – If people really knew – one man’s struggle to report the Great War and tell the truth by Ross Coulthart, Harper Collins. Censorship is nothing new. Censorship by whom we might call the “good guys” is nothing new either. By censoring the message, the truth can be
Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org President Bush said last week that, “Any election [in Ukraine], if there is one, ought to be free from any foreign influence.” I agree with the president wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, it seems that several US government agencies saw things differently and sent US taxpayer dollars into Ukraine
I’m not a huge fan of Nietzsche, but he was right on the money when he said, He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. The CIA, and its predecessor the WWII-era OSS, was created to fight some truly fearsome
We are running yet another fantastic book giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of Dr John Robinson’s new book Regaining A Nation; Equality and Democracy. On the 23rd of February, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an online
No one living in America today has ever legally owned a slave. No one living in America today was ever legally a slave. No one alive in America today can remember slavery. Virtually no one in America today defends slavery. There are many other countries who cannot say the same.
As anyone who’s endured Mel Gibson’s pious snuff-movie, The Passion of the Christ, knows, Jesus died a brutally violent death. But the majority of his disciples didn’t get off much easier. Of the 12 apostles, 10 died violent deaths. Some of them, extremely violent. First off the
Dan Sanchez FEE.org. Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in-chief of FEE.org. Follow him on Substack and Twitter. Should America embrace libertarianism? Many would regard such a prospect as recklessly experimental. This is partly because they regard libertarianism
Rob Paterson REGAINING A NATION EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY (2022) 238 pages Author: Dr John Robinson PhD Main Topic: The Benefits of Colonisation for New Zealand Publisher: Tross Publishing (RRP $35 incl. postage) Email : trosspub@gmail.com Rating 5 Star ***** Target audience: All Kiwis Reviewer: Rob Paterson, Retired Lawyer, Tauranga Book
For weeks, Australian politics has been dominated by one of the silliest beat-ups imaginable: a political leader, decades ago, went to a party dressed in “offensive” costume. The leader in question is NSW premier Dominic Perrottet, whose 21st birthday party was themed on “Heroes and Villains”. Perrottet dressed as a
John Maunder When I was in Canada about 30 years ago, I listened to a lecture about Medieval Warming, the building of the Gothic Cathedrals and the freemasons. It appears that there was no theological reason why the cathedrals were built at that time but there is an interesting link
Are there sparkly vampires in Strachan, Tasmania? In Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight books, the bedazzled bloodsuckers of the Cullen family set up home in the Pacific Northwest town of Forks because the town experiences rain on an average 212 days of the year. Tasmanians likewise say that, in Strachan, on
The serial killer as a pop culture phenomenon could be said to have begun with London’s Jack the Ripper, but serial killers really began to grip the popular imagination in America in the late 1960s. Dirty Harry was the first blockbuster entry in the serial-killer-hunting genre (Psycho didn’t
Caleb Anderson breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com Caleb Anderson, a graduate of history, economics, psychotherapy and theology, has been an educator for over 30 years, 20 as a school principal. The final version of the New Zealand History Curriculum contained no significant changes in spite of widespread concerns. The consultation process was
