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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
Is it Possible to Loathe the Greens Enough?
Mehreen Faruqi’s appearance on Sunday’s edition of ABC’s Insiders has proven, yet again, that it’s impossible to be adequately revulsed by the Greens. In a now-viral interview, the keffiyeh-clad Senator declared that the dismantling of Hamas would be entirely foreign to her policy.
Although host David Speers dangled plenty of opportunities for Faruqi to mop up, she simply couldn’t bring herself to say that the Palestinians might be better off under alternative leadership. That must have struck most viewers as a fairly easy moral test, and the Greens Senator rushed to fail it. Instead, she huffed: “Hamas has nothing to do with recognising Palestinian statehood. Recognising Palestinian statehood is about Palestinians being able to self determine.”
Faruqi, perhaps better than any other Greens politician, unites the qualities of gormlessness and verbosity. She is unaware, I guess, that the majority of Gazans voted for Hamas, still approve of its October 7 pogrom, and…
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
By referring to eye-witness accounts, I happen to believe that I am on firm ground. It is impossible to believe that the early Christian martyrs went to their deaths in service of unsubstantiated hearsay.
Sep 01 2024
4 mins
