To the first Europeans to arrive here, everything about Australia seemed upside-down and paradoxical. To many, Australian politics still seems the same. Our conservatives are "Liberals", and our "Labor" party are all wealthy professionals. Here's a rough guide to the upside-down politics of Australia ...Do read on ...
The New Cultural Revolution Is Just More of the Same Destruction. Spot the Difference. L-R: Communists in Spain, Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution; Marxist vigilantes today. A Devil's Curmudgeon. George Orwell well understood the totalitarian mindset. He didn’t live to see Communist China, but he would have recognised it instantly. Orwell would also have …
Pitiful scenes like this have played out around the world. For nothing. A Devil's Curmudgeon. This is it. The jig is finally up. The cover is blown and the veil of lies has been stripped away for all to see. What little credibility most Western governments had over the Wuhan pandemic has been shredded over …
Anti-vaxxers, 5G, Lizard People, the Illuminati…and Black Lives Matter. Imagine if anti-vaxxers were rioting, burning and looting across America’s major cities. Imagine if store owners were being beaten to death by thugs convinced that Bill Gates was impurifying their precious bodily fluids. Imagine if celebrity chefs and soccer moms were besieging the White House. The …
Data visualisations – “graphs”, to the unitiated – have been an incredibly useful tool for cutting through the fog of bias and misunderstanding to get at the facts. One of the most famous early data visualisations was John Snow’s graph plotting every case in the infamous Broad Street cholera outbreak of 1854. Snow’s dot map …
Anti-Semitic graffiti in a Paris graveyard. An ugliness we should never have seen again. Right or Left, Antisemitism Is a Cancer Which Must Be Resolutely and Honestly Tackled. When New York mayor Bill de Blasio warned the city’s “Jewish community” that “the time for warnings has passed”, it understandably set many American Jews’ danger senses …
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The shocking intolerance of the left. “Tolerance” is, supposedly, one of the supreme virtues of modern society. But what does it mean, exactly? Oxford defines “tolerance” as “the willingness to accept or tolerate someone or something, especially opinions or behavior that you may not agree with, or people who are not like you”. Merriam-Webster, the …
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Masks, but still at work and no social distancing: London secretaries in 1968. A Devil's Curmudgeon. Does anyone remember the Obama pandemic, or the Woodstock pandemic? Of course, neither of those were their actual names, but their concurrence with both periods in America serves to highlight the absurdity of the current panic over the Chinese …
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The introduction of new communications technologies have almost always been heralded with almost absurd optimism. When television was introduced, for instance, it was predicted that this new technology would lead to a new golden age of education and information. Instead, audiences almost immediately flocked to light entertainment and, ultimately, Keeping up with the Kardashians. Similar …
"A mass murderer of, and for, the internet": Christchurch killer Brenton Tarrant. A Devil's Curmudgeon. Another old piece. In the wake of the Christchurch massacre, two perceptive comments were made to me. The first was that “This is the first internet terrorist”; the other was that the killer’s livestream turned the horrific crime into an …
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