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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Fertile Grounds for Revolt
The Dutch Manure Mountain in all its steaming glory is the perfect metaphor for the centrally planned lunacy of EU climate policy. Soviet-style gluts have long been a feature of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy but, at least in the old days, the misdirected financial incentives produced wine lakes and butter mountains which exuded the allure of a cornucopia.
You might think that the sensible thing to do with manure would be to use it to enrich the soil in the time-honoured tradition of Dutch farmers that made the country one of the world’s leading agricultural producers and exporters. The diktat of Europe’s elite however is that the manure has to be destroyed because of its high concentration of nitrogen (which contributes to greenhouse gases and acid rain) and its potential to leach into waterways. The EU is already issuing stiff fines and sanctions to those who fail to comply.
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Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
