As another round of terror raids in Sydney unfolded recently, a depressingly familiar refrain emerged: “Radicalised in prison”. The central conceit of the modern criminal justice system is that prison should be all about rehabilitation rather than punishment. Similarly, we are told that our response to growing Islamic extremism ought
In Plot A, the Taxpayer-funded BBC has inserted a storyline into its most popular soap opera about a man who after leaving prison converts to Christianity to find “peace”. “EastEnders’ Bobby Beale (Clay Milner Russell), will explore the Christian faith as he adapts to life on the outside after being
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Kamala Harris is the perfect anti-Trump candidate – a photo negative inversion of the Don. In fact, if they ever meet, the universe may implode such is their perfect cosmic opposition. Trust me, its physics. She’s black,
Recent Australian political history is littered with the corpses of governments who blatantly reneged on election promises. When Julia Gillard promised that there would be “no carbon tax under a government I lead”, but created a carbon tax almost the instant she was elected, it was all over, bar the
Currently, most of our electricity is generated by renewables, around 80%. But when we all get on board the JAG wagon and buy EVs where is the extra electricity going to come from? Dr Woods is now too busy knocking up Kiwibuild houses to get her 4.5 windfarms per
Anyone who’s ever done a group project at school or worked in a team environment would be grimly familiar with the types of skiver who consistently refuse to pull their weight, sits on their clacker or is just plain useless; yet expects to lap up the rewards of everyone
Apologists and head-in-sand ninnies who wish to hand-wave away the horrors of terrorism commonly resort to silly arguments like “Oh, you have more chance of being killed by a refrigerator than a terrorist”. The stupidity of this argument is to pretend that there is any sort of moral equivalence between
