Lushington Brady: This Is Your Future, New Zealand

Do you think minorities will ease up on the demands when they become the majority?

Imagine if 81 million New Zealanders upped stakes and moved to Mumbai and Delhi, and then started issuing ultimatums to the Indian government. Imagine if 78 million Kiwis landed in Beijing and Shanghai and started demanding special laws from the Chinese government – or else. How do you think the Indians or Chinese would react? There’d be a non-stop string of flights to Auckland International, repatriating those uppity Kiwis right back where they came from. That’s if they were lucky enough to not end up in a concentration camp in Xinjiang.

Ignore the fact that, of course, there aren’t 78 or 81 million New Zealanders: the point of this hypothetical is to put into relative terms the sheer, overwhelming scale of the twin butter-chicken-and-fried-rice tsunamis which have swamped New Zealand in recent years.

Lushington Brady: Japan Claims Deep Sea Mining Success

As I wrote recently, deep-sea mining is fast moving out of the realm of science fiction. While the Deepwater Horizon disaster has put the brakes on undersea oil drilling, oil is far from the only resource to be found in plenty on the ocean floor. Of critical importance in the current geopolitical climate are rare earth minerals.

Lushington Brady: How Did Labor’s Social Media Ban Go?

If you’ve ever worked around kids and technology, you’ll know perfectly well that teenage rat cunning will beat adult brains, any time. When I briefly worked in education, the school’s IT manager complained that his job was a constant game of technological whack-a-mole. As soon as he plugged up one digital loophole, even dullards who could barely read or write had figured a way around it.

Lushington Brady: Japan Returns to the Polls, Again

Here they go again, for Japan’s long-suffering voters. Just months after electing their fourth prime minister in five years, Japanese voters are going back to the polls for another snap election. The election will decide the future of Japan’s first female leader, who remains hugely popular even as her party’s fortunes remain dire.

Lushington Brady: Britain Has a Lot to Be Proud About

When the Empire led the world in stamping out slavery.

In his travelling lecture tour, Explorers: the Age of Discovery, James May makes an unfashionable point: the British Empire wasn’t all bad. In fact, it did an awful lot of good. Niall Ferguson makes the same point in his book, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Like Ferguson, May doesn’t minimalise the evils of colonialism (although he oddly refrains from pointing out that it was the default mode of international relations for nearly 5000 years), but he rightly points out that the British did an awful lot of good. The Pax Britannica, enforced by the Royal Navy, for instance.

Lushington Brady: Spanish Town Forbids Islamic Celebrations

Spaniards haven’t forgotten what it’s like to be ruled by Islam.

As Britain edges closer and closer to open rebellion from its indigenous peoples, indigenes in other European countries are growing increasingly vocal about the colonisation of their ancestral lands by waves of violent foreigners pushing an alien, supremacist, ideology.

Lushington Brady: What Will It Take for the NZ Govt to Save Itself?

Is the PM the biggest millstone around the government’s neck?

Opinion polls from New Zealand rarely make news in Australia, unless they’re particularly notable and they particularly appeal to the local legacy media. When Jacinda Ardern was riding high in the polls, it was exactly the sort of stuff to warm an Australian legacy media desperate to console themselves over the durability of the then-coalition government here. Ardern’s plummet from poll grace, on the other hand, was not something they chose to dwell on.

Lushington Brady: Has Milei Saved Argentina from the Left?

To the fury of the media, Argentina’s economy is bounding back.

When Javier Milei came to power in Argentina, the Western media went into pearl-clutching overdrive. Milei, like Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, was a ‘mini-Trump’, a chainsaw-wielding madman who was set to overthrow decades of left-wing, socialist, policy in Argentina. That those same policies had taken Argentina from one of the wealthiest countries in the world to a basket-case economy, was of no matter.

All that mattered was that the globalists’ beloved ‘pink tide’ was under threat. Venezuela, the left’s beloved poster-child, was in free-fall collapse, with Argentina not far behind.

Milei vowed to turn that all around by slashing government spending and lifting the heavy boot of bureaucracy from Argentina’s neck.

And it’s worked. With stunning speed. In less than two years, Milei has reined in inflation, revitalised a moribund housing market and lifted millions of Argentines out of poverty.

Lushington Brady: Canadians Want What Americans Have Got

Donald Trump has only been president for days, and he’s already changed the world. In fact, he was doing so before he was even inaugurated for the second time.

Anticipating the Trump presidency, people across the Western world are shrugging off the pall of wokeness. Even Canadians rate Donald Trump twice as highly as their own recently departed prime minister.

Lushington Brady: Pauline Kicks the Rat’s Nest Again

Calls for Australia to quit the WHO.

Good old Pauline – she never fails to put a rocket up the b*****rds.

This time, in a move sure to set the chattering classes shrieking and clutching for their pearls, she’s urging Australia to follow US President Donald Trump’s lead and ditch the venal WHO.

Lushington Brady: The Activists Will Always Be with Us

In his Intellectuals and Race, Thomas Sowell points out that one of the most destabilising forces a modern society can be afflicted with is a growing pool of newly educated ‘intelligentsia’: the vast bulk of these are university-educated graduate from ‘soft’ fields, rather than the sciences. With no marketable skills and limited employment opportunities, these people form a class of ‘over-educated and under-employed’.

Lushington Brady: Argentina Is Turning the Corner at Last

No pain, no gain,’ as the saying goes. Overturning decades of economic decline in Argentina was never going to be easy, but Javier Milei’s revolution is already paying dividends, in little over a year.

When Milei slashed government spending, the mainstream media were quick to pounce. Never mind that Argentina had been on a century-long decline, from one of the most prosperous countries in the world in the early 20th century to chronic hyperinflation in the last few decades. But Milei’s economic policies already have the country turning the corner.

Lushington Brady: Is the Long March Done?

Imagine if they conquered the institutions and no one was there.

Credit where it’s due, the Long March through the Institutions has been one of the most staggeringly successful ideological campaigns in modern history. Less than half a century since Marxists Herbert Marcuse and Rudi Dutschke hit on the strategy of white-anting the institutions of liberal Western democracy from within, the Marxist takeover is almost total.

Lushington Brady: Ferries a Good Ad for Government Efficiency

In the worst possible way.

Back when I was still an obediently socialist teenage idiot, Ronald Reagan made his famous quip about government. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help’. At the time, I thought it was the dumbest thing I’d ever heard.

Then I grew up. A lifetime of experience and a predilection for studying history have taught me that Reagan was right. There have been very few questions where ‘more government’ was the right answer.

Lushington Brady: Judges Need to Stay in Their Lanes

Who is running our countries? Elected representatives or unelected judicial activists?

Are Western democracies governed by elected representatives any more, or have we just handed government over to an unelected elite of activist judges?

Too often, judges are taking it on themselves to not stay in their lane of interpreting the laws written by elected officials, but effectively making their own out of whole cloth. Even as far back as 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled on Roe v Wade, based not on anything even vaguely laid out in the Constitution, but the judges’ ‘I Just Reckon’. It took 50 years to correct that judicial overreach.

Lushington Brady: The Bell Is Tolling for Us All

The attacks on Jews are an attack on our entire democracy.

Many in the West are belatedly waking up to the reality that the ‘Great Awokening’ is a Cultural Revolution in the fullest sense of the word. Where Mao unleashed his Red Guards to protect his own grip on power, the new Red Guards have been turned loose by a Marxist establishment that has spent decades surreptitiously white-anting nearly every institution of Western liberal democracy.

Lushington Brady: Time to Go the Way of the League of Nations

The UN is worse than useless.

In the first couple of decades following WWII, the United Nations seemed like a beacon of hope for a war-torn world subsequently split by the Cold War.

Yet, when the world came perilously close to full-scale nuclear war in 1962, the UN was mostly irrelevant. Instead, it was old-fashioned personal diplomacy between the US and the USSR that averted the crisis.

Lushington Brady: Reaching for the Stars While the Left Drag Him Down

Elon Musk is transforming the world, mostly for the better – so of course the left hate him

As I wrote recently, capitalism developed cheap appliances that literally save lives – the green-left hate them. And one of the world’s most successful capitalist innovators right now? Oh, boy, do the left hate him.

Now, I’m not exactly a signed-up True Believer of the Cult of Musk. In fact, I despise Tesla and its business model, which is rank crony capitalism. In other enterprises, though, from banking to communications, Musk is a consequential innovator up there with Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs.

Lushington Brady: They Are Not Smart Men in Tehran

When will they learn: Jews don’t lose.

As I recently wrote, the Islamic world is marked by notably low average IQ. In fact, ‘Palestine’ scores so low that its population could be classed as functionally retarded. Iran fares much better, but still below average.

Like it or not, these are facts – and those facts have consequences.

Lushington Brady: They Don’t Want Your Life to Be Better

Capitalism developed cheap appliances that literally save lives – the green-left hate them.

What is it that the green-left have against human progress?

Humans spend 10,000 years learning how to manipulate the genome of wild animals and plants in order to provide abundant, healthy, cheap food – and the green-left complain about it. Humans develop an industrialised, liberal-democratic-capitalist society that lifts more humans out of poverty faster than any time in human history – and the green-left want to tear it down. Humans develop industrialised agriculture that means less land produces more food than ever, allowing the re-wilding of large tracts of land for the first time in human history – and the green-left want to destroy it.