While they wait (and wait) for the dams to empty and never fill again, Tim Flannery and his pals at the Climate Council keep gabbling of imminent global disaster. Give 'em credit for tenacity, but what they really deserve is a good spanking for taking indecent liberties with science

Like many modern leaders, Bavaria's castle-building Ludwig II was very keen to indulge his edifice complex with other people's money. Unlike modern leaders, all it took to stop his crazed campaign of construction was a long walk on a short foreshore

In a time of turmoil in the Middle East, a […]

If Utopia last century was populated by Soviet Man, he has been superseded this century by Green Person with eerily similar yearnings – this time for a ‘sustainable’ world free of ‘inequity’. All the developed world needs to do is fill the pockets of the Third's kleptocrats and sustainable joy will reign supreme

America's Democrats, and one well-heeled 'carbon capitalist' in particular, received a monumental thrashing in the US midterm elections, despite a lavishly financed ad campaign of eco-alarmist propaganda. It seems voters are nowhere near so dopey as their betters imagined

Depressed that the limp reception accorded 'Carmen' and other musical efforts spoke of failure, poor Georges Bizet died before his talents were recognised. As the composer decomposed, a forgotten work awaited the dawning of our PC age

Often hailed as 'the greatest movie ever made', the film's atmosphere of romance and peril, not to mention its more-than-somewhat improbable plot, have captivated audiences since 1942, when Warner released what execs thought would be just another back-lot pot-boiler. The back story is far more interesting

There is nothing new under the sun, not even those subsidised solar roof panels, as an exploration of the Potentate PUP-PUP's burial chamber made immediately clear.

The carbon tax is gone, finally, but the compensation that was supposed to ease its sting remains. Perhaps the time has come to honour a convention revered in many parts of the world and admit that baksheesh is now part and parcel of Australian life and politics