DEFENCE DESK AUSTRALIA AND FRANCE have agreed to kiss and make up after the Aussie decision to cancel a humongous submarine contract between the two countries caused something of an entente terrible. Instead of French subs, Australia will purchase the Maginot Line from the French, which will act as a temporary defence against Chinese aggression…

BY FOOD CRITIC ROGER DUMPLING FRESH FIGURES from a huge survey of American weight, together with the recent demise of Jenny Craig, the Australian weight loss company, in the United States, have led researchers to a stunning conclusion: the sea levels around Florida may not be rising at all; because they don’t have to. Instead,…

MEDICAL DESK CANADA IS officially so dull that it now being prescribed as a cure for hypertension, or high blood pressure. According to a new study, Canada can, at times, virtually stop the human heart beating. “Look, while it’s really good news for high blood pressure, it can be dangerous for people with bad hearts…

ENTERTAINMENT DESK BRYAN BRICK, veteran, husband, father, gun owner, Nascar fan and Trump voter, dropped unconscious last Friday in his Arizona trailer. The ambulance rushed him to emergency and doctors worked on him all night. Finally, they told his wife he was brain dead. They asked her permission to turn off the life support equipment.…

SOMEONE IN IRELAND MILITARY EXPERTS in Ireland are confident the country could sustain a two-front war with Russia and China, with some limited effort and a European Union grant. The recent bitch-slappings of both powers by Irish Tanaiste and Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, have caused raised eyebrows across the globe, as Ireland, like its Foreign…

FATUOUS CLAIMS CORRESPONDENT CLAIMS BY TORY CHAIRMAN Greg Hands that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was a factor in Conservative Party local election losses have been dismissed by the Russian president. A western intercept of communications between the Kremlin and its London embassy indicate that Putin is upset at what has happened to the Conservatives…

POLITICS DESK APART FROM FOSSIL FUELS AND belching competitions, the fastest growing source of carbon dioxide emissions in Australia used to be political hypocrisy. Not any more. Virtue Signalling has overtaken hypocrisy for the first time. “You know that trees and bushes, even the grass, grow faster in Canberra than anywhere else in Australia. Except…

FROM OUR CHIEF NATO CORRESPONDENT BARON ULRICH VON DER SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN THE SMALL DRONE that exploded over the Kremlin was not a high-tech assassin, it was a Putin fan, says NATO. “Yes, some of these little fellows, they can develop affections for people whose lives we program into their operating systems. This particular drone appears to…

SCIENCE DESK IT USE TO BE that just about every second American claimed they had been abducted and physically examined by aliens. It was a particularly popular experience around the time of the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Today, while their ships and probes are frequently spotted, you hardly ever hear of anyone…

KYIV REPORTING STAFF AND WIRE SERVICES IN A BOMBSHELL report for President Vladimir Putin, one of his strategic experts has told the Russian President that if the Russian Army cannot get the lead out of its boots, it will take about 500 years at their current rate of advance to cross Ukraine and reach the…