A selection of leading articles from Doomed Planet published in 2010.

The DVDs Quadrant writers and readers recommend for holiday viewing.

John Izzard asked Quadrant contributors and readers to write about some of the books they have read in 2010 or are saving to read over the Christmas holidays.

Peter Smith argued: “There is no substitute for clarity of thought and communicating the results plainly and consistently. The sceptics are not doing that. They might have truth on their side. It is being lost in the blather.” Bob Carter and Alex Stuart disagreed. 

It is a Sydney tradition for murderers to take their victims out to sea in a boat and throw them overboard.

The Mercury: “The Tasmanian Government has been told it needs to pray for wind of "biblical proportions" to return Hydro Tasmania's wind-farm business to profitability.”

Peter Kocan, a regular Quadrant contributor, is the winner of the 2010 Australia Council for the Arts Writer’s Emeritus Award. Congratulations Peter!!

Antony Green: “After the Liberal Party announced last weekend that it would put the Greens last on its how-to-vote material, I was asked what the Liberal Party used to do with the Communist Party.”

John Howard: “As far as the eye could see there was a steady flow of Green preferences to the Labor Party.”