The Red Pill ban: an absurdity only online activism could create
I learned nothing that surprised me apart from the fact a group of grown women call themselves the "Honey Badgers".
Annabel Crabb is a regular columnist, TV host and leading political commentator.
I learned nothing that surprised me apart from the fact a group of grown women call themselves the "Honey Badgers".
So many large organisations appear to have put their affairs into the hands of a semi-distracted chimp.
Otto von Bismarck, Germany's first Chancellor, is usually credited with the famous remark likening laws to sausages; for peace of mind, one should never see either being made.
Before we lapse back into a state of national ennui, let's perhaps revisit a few basics.
Whenever a politician in this country announces their retirement for family reasons, one of two things happens.
An accountant shamed on the world stage. A Department of Finance viral video. The financial services world is highly unlikely to let these slights go unavenged.
Fair dinkum – at what point is the youth of Australia going to rise up in a bloody revolution and put the rest of us against the wall? Surely, the moment must be close at hand.
People get terribly upset when politicians endorse products. Approximately half the English-speaking world, for instance, lost its mind recently when White House spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway took some time out of her busy day to advise Americans to take a look at Ivanka Trump's modest line of accessories for the humble working mom (to which list of accessories was later added, consternatingly, "The Oval Office Desk", when Ivanka posed sitting behind it).
Watching politicians fight about energy policy is at once intriguing and confounding. On one hand, as South Australian residents last week will have gathered – or at least those of them with kerosene-fuelled ham radio sets conveniently at hand – there is a recognisable human dimension to the fight.
In this new world of alternative facts, believing your eyes is not actually as sure a bet as it once was.
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