Everything about politics
“Every joke is a tiny revolution,” said George Orwell. Because jokes upset the established order. Whatever “brings down the mighty from their seats, preferably with a bump, is funny”. Which is why “comedy” today is so mind-numbingly un-funny. Contemporary “comedians” are not bringing down the high-and-mighty,
Owen Jennings Dr Ben Carson, Republican presidential candidate, medical doctor and now Trump’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has always impressed as a mild mannered, unexcitable but thoughtful kind of guy. He obviously has strong views, quite conservative, but he is by no means a red neck or
The CoL has quietly kicked to the kerb the idea of making all government vehicles (where practicable) electric by 2025. “Although it was repeated as recently as June, that goal has been very quietly revised to a commitment that, after mid-2025, all new vehicles entering the fleet will be
As predicted here at The BFD, Christopher Luxon has declared he is seeking the National party nomination for Botany. Former Air New Zealand chief Christopher Luxon has put his name up to be the National Party candidate in the Auckland seat of Botany, according to reports. Luxon’s future with
2019 was the third consecutive local body election in which I have compiled a voting guide. In 2013, it was a couple of pages knocked together, with a considerable amount of self-interest invested into it. The Affordable City nationwide local body ticket – Affordable Auckland in our case – had three
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says the impeachment inquiry “will be worth it” even if the Democrats lose the House of Representatives in 2020. What?? How can an amateurish phony whistleblower story, they are using to try to impeach President Trump, be “worth it”? Former CIA Officer and whistleblower
In his history of 1970s leftist terrorism, Days of Rage, Bryan Burroughs writes that, “the most startling thing…is how thoroughly it has been forgotten”. There were nearly 2000 bombings in the U.S. in 1972 alone. This is not a history taught in schools or ever mentioned by a
You can read the White House’s full statement here PAC-Letter-10.08.2019Download
When the wizened wizard of woke-ness, Bob Brown, led his ill-fated clown parade of anti-coal activists last May, it was the standard motley collective of greybeards in sandals (and that was just the women) and dreadlocked ferals. The nosey-nannas at least have the poor excuse that
As I reported recently, nuclear energy is emerging as yet another issue on which the Labor party is moving further and further from its blue-collar base. One of Australia’s biggest unions, the Australian Worker’s Union is advocating that Australia drop its sanctions and adopt nuclear power. A
Patriot Realm Trump has been all over China since at least 2018 and gave a warning to them to pull their head in or risk consequences. Well, they didn’t pull their head in and they are about to face the consequences of their arrogance. He offered every opportunity to
Imagine if, in 2013, government buildings across Australia and New Zealand were decorated with swastika flags to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of Nazi Germany. Yet, a precisely analogous festival of supine arse-kissing for a murderous dictatorship has been unfolding all week. It matters not that Nazi
