A 100 years ago, the US tried to ban alcohol, and the result was a crime wave like never before seen in the USA. Al Capone shot to fame and fortune, but he was just one of many. And the illegal alcohol trade became big business with violent turf wars and a government response that […]
Zohran Mamdani has now overtaken Gavin Newsom and Kim Jong-un as the world’s most high-profile socialist. And that’s not a good thing if you’re a socialist. Because even by the standards of a socialist, he has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. Watch what he says in response to a simple question about how he’s […]
If things feel hard right now, it’s because they are. Real wages, that’s wages after they’ve been adjusted for inflation, are officially back to the levels they were in 2011, 14 years ago. And that’s only 10% higher than they were back in 1992. But if you believe the Labour Party spin, they’re doing a […]
They’re taxing parking spaces. I’m going to say that again. The government are taxing our parking spaces. I mean, I know they’re broke and desperate and they’ll do absolutely anything to screw us, but what the actual frog in a pot? They’re taxing the parking spaces. And they’re not just taxing them. No, no. Soon […]
President Donald Trump has finally belatedly realized that all of his tariffs on other countries are actually paid by Americans. Food producers around the world, including beef producers here in Australia, are celebrating the good news that tariffs on their products are being slashed or dropped entirely into the US as Trump gets bitten by […]
Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released last week show that Australia is now paying nearly $250 billion a year on 2.6 million public sector workers for an average salary of more than $95,000 a year each. That would be nice. Now, it must be said that most of that employment is at the […]
The Liberal Party have just made exactly the mistake that I’ve been warning against repeatedly here on the Topher project. They’re trying to have a foot in each camp and nobody’s going to vote for a double-minded, weak-willed, have a bet each way kind of political party. The Liberals are under pressure from a fast […]
The Nationals Party have now turned net zero into Nyet zero, abandoning their net zero by 2050 commitment. And that’s a great thing. But as always, the devil is in the detail. David Littleproud is the current leader of the Nationals, and he has a long history of trying to play both sides of the […]
It always amuses me how quickly saving the environment goes from it doesn’t cost us much at all to well we have to pay now or else it’ll cost us even more later. Examples of this sort of bait and switch are numerous, but the latest example has come out of the airline industry where […]
The UN are rushing to impose a new global carbon tax on shipping, potentially adding hundreds of thousands of dollars in carbon taxes to every journey of every container or cargo ship anywhere in the world, which means billions in annual revenue for them and higher cost of living and lower living standards for us. […]
