As the final day of CPAC Australia draws to a close, here are a few photos and takeaways from it. Thanks to my day job I could only attend the second day of the very first CPAC ever held in Australia so this is just a glimpse at the full event. If I’ve got some […]
Author: Ainsley Hayes
mother, rider, thinker, writer.
APEC Sydney 2007 Maybe this wasn’t Black Bloc 1.0 after all but they sure look familiar. See below for more of the local APEC protests and what I did there. Recent events in Portland, Oregon were ugly and sad. I’m not sure when “minority groups”, or more importantly “woke individuals”, will appreciate that they […]
Too tired for too many words tonight so just a few random thoughts etc. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? asked Juvenal. Translated, this famous phrase means something like Who watches the watchers? Juvenal’s 16 satiric poems deal mainly with life in Rome… The Satires attack two main themes: the corruption of society in the city […]
Then. Now. Declassification. At last. Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election. Sunshine 🙂 Its just past 4 am in Washington […]
Update: Richard Fernandez on our own feast of Crispian. In case Wretchard ever notices this, which is ridiculously unlikely, I think the basiv problem was that the average Aussie was pissed off. Maybe not about all the same things but largely in one direction about some key things. Wages have stagnated for years and many […]
UPDATE: Since I wrote the post below, the now famous Barr-brawl took place in Congress over the Mueller-lite outcome. It included the Left’s freakout over the perfectly accurate term, “Spy“. It showed that the Dems really do fear the walls closing in. On them. Even the New York Slime couldn’t avoid mentioning the elephant (err, […]
Dawn ceremony at ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli in 2007. (From a public use image) Thank you on this day from our family to all those who serve, and all those who have served, Australia. Thank you to my son’s dad, my grandfather and uncle for their service. Thank you to all those currently deployed away from […]
Introducing the very first guest post on RoadScholar from Earnest, a recognised expert Australian thinker in education, academic and former secondary school teacher. I hope there will be plenty more posts to come! A great debate in 21st century Australia is around the wellbeing and education of our youngest citizens. This age-old topic preoccupies parents […]
When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional. Frank Zappa Thomas Sowell said that each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. We have not been doing a good job of that lately. And not for about 70 years […]
Min bearwe is æla ful (My basket is full of eels)9th century West Saxon A corner (byht) of this blog is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Ralph Elliott. Many years ago, Ralph taught me about stillnesse [quietude] in the time of King Alfred and the trawthe [truth] of Sir Gawain and the Green […]