Andrew Marr: “A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother’s basements and ranting. They are very angry people.”

Gavin Atkins on Julia Gillard’s first 100 days: “Like all good disasters, there are always clues, and my bet says that this one is going to unravel in spectacular fashion.”

Rodney Hide: “It’s a very significant book. It will save countless lives. These would be the lives lost should the world’s poor be condemned to the grinding poverty implicit in the now world-wide political goal of dramatically curtailing the use of fossil fuels.”

Hal Lewis: “My former pride at being an American Physical Society Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.”

Andrew McIntyre: “The litany of racist and inhumane bigotry by the Left is documented in detail by Hal Colebatch. His article thus reveals Robert Manne’s strange delusional rewrite of history.” 

On Counterpoint Michael Duffy interviewed Jennifer Marohasy on her recent Quadrant Online essay “The Murray: a fresh perspective”. Listen now.

Listen to John Dawson discussing the new edition of Washout.

The Times: "Britain’s leading scientific institution [the Royal Society] has been forced to rewrite its guide to climate change and admit that there is greater uncertainty about future temperature increases than it had previously suggested."

Crikey: “The only recalcitrants are the Coalition, and as more high-profile businesses join the calls for a carbon price, that recalcitrance means the Coalition will lock itself out of a role in shaping what should be the most significant economic reform of this decade.”