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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Simple Questions
If you want a deliriously bent answer from a modern leftist—or from a bureaucrat under leftist command—just ask a straight question. Basic as you like. Simple as can be.
The responses will likely involve more twists, logical flaws, conceptual inversions and outright denials of reality than you’d hear in a decade’s worth of magistrate’s court not-guilty pleas. Our left-inclined friends recently found themselves repeatedly caught out, for example, by being asked “What is a woman?”—a question so historically obvious that for centuries it wasn’t even a question.
US commentator Matt Walsh memorably composed a ninety-four-minute documentary in 2022 by putting that query to various gender activists (and a few representatives of the sane community). In the same year, South Australian Liberal senator Alex Antic caused all manner of mystification during a Senate Estimates hearing with Health Department secretary Brendan Murphy when he threw this into the mix: “Can someone…
Joe Biden and his enablers have put it about, as they always do, that Trump parades a cavalcade of lies whenever he gets near a microphone. Take a closer look at their big debate and it soon emerges that neither man uttered anything worse than candidates always do
Jul 07 2024
13 mins
'I can hardly believe these MSO programme notes could be so ill-informed and so keen to whitewash an era of hideous tyranny and murder in the now-unlamented Soviet Union,' I complained some years ago. To my surprise, my gripe was taken to heart. I seriously doubt that would be the reaction today
May 24 2024
10 mins
Speaking for myself, I'm very glad to have grown up in an era when seduction was alive and well, woke just meant awake, LGBTIQ+ were random letters and there were only two genders. Today's lusty Lochinvars face an entirely different world, one where taking precautions needs to involve rather more than prophylactics
May 19 2024
4 mins
