Instead of Criticising Panic-Buying, the Media Are Encouraging It Going shopping in Australia in 2020. A Devil's Curmudgeon. Nobody likes being proven wrong, journalists least of all. So, having just over a week before written that, “rather than ‘stupid’ ordinary people running around like headless chooks, it’s the supposedly ‘superior’, ‘educated’ elite who are doing …
Continue reading The Bogocalypse Brought to You by the Media
A Fog of Pandemic-Induced Chaos Makes the Facts of the Chinese Virus Hard to Uncover. One thing that’s glaringly obvious about the Chinese virus pandemic is how differently it has affected different countries. China was hammered (how badly, no-one really knows, thanks to Beijing’s secrecy and lies), yet Hong Kong and Taiwan, even Japan, have …
With Turnbull's memoirs due imminently, it seems timely to revisit this one.I wrote it in the wake of the first leadership spill against Turnbull, and it ended up being a political eulogy within a day. Like most eulogies, I tried to be as nice as I could. No mention of Turnbull's grandiose, bitter narcissism – …
Continue reading Malcolm Turnbull: A Man for Any Other Season
In light of the recent unanimous High Court ruling, it seems a good time to post this Insight piece from last year. The U.S. vice president was ridiculed by the usual clown show of legacy media hacks and late night tv “comedians” for his so-called “Pence Rule”: never dining alone with any woman other than …
Continue reading Shifty and the Cardinal: a tale of two investigations
Racism: It's all the Left have left. A Devil's Curmudgeon. The American left are currently cock-a-whoop that lynching has finally been made a Federal crime, linking the passage of the bill directly to the murder of Emmett Till. Which begs the question: why pass a statute for a crime that hasn’t been reported for nigh …
Continue reading The Left are Obsessed with Race Because They Have to be
We Are Being Driven Like Panicked Lemmings. The Roman statesmen Cicero once wrote: “Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a most honest and most wise judge, was in the habit of asking time and again in lawsuits: to whom might it be for a benefit?” Cui bono?, as it goes in …
A Devil's Curmudgeon 