The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many of them are descended from prison officers. – Clive James So said the Monty Python crew in the famous “Bruces” sketch, which actually does have a hint at censorship and banning via rules #1, 3, 5, and 7: “No […]

Australia, Australia, Australia, We Love You. Amen

Having witnessed the firestorm created by Elon Musk’s now famous “Go fuck yourselves” message to companies boycotting Twitter / X because of Musk’s “liking of anti-semitism”… I could not help but think of this famous movie scene. Given the coverage by the media of the previous shitstorm that led to all this – the claim […]

Orson Welles said it much more nicely