Saturday, 6 December 2025

Not Off Grid

Donald Trump has 40 years of beef with the NFL. But as American football went global, it might make more use of its other name. Rugby football is usually called rugby, and gridiron football could usually be called gridiron. It is already often called that in Australia.

Anthony Albanese meant something else when he said, "I want to see kids off their devices and onto the footy fields." That is the reasoning behind his ban on social media for under-16s, denying them the formative experience of their generation internationally, together with any ideology other than that of the schools and of the official media. The people who want to emulate it in Britain want to lower the voting age to 16, having already raised the school leaving age to 18. Think on.

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