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From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war.
Sep 10 2024
11 mins
The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
No More Going With The Flow
It is nice to know that a political party enjoys the support of a respected commentator, so I thank Quadrant‘s Peter Smith for announcing his intention to vote for the Australian Liberty Alliance on whose behalf I am contesting the Riverina seat of Farrer, currently occupied by Health Minister Sussan Ley, whose career has blossomed since backing the Turnbull coup. I hope, therefore, that Peter does not think me churlish for taking exception to his incidental observation that my party’s plan to drought-proof Australia by reforming water policies and building dams is a bit more than “a pet scheme”. Because the ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something about which a person knows nothing, I hope what follows leads Peter to the conclusion that, in addition to the policies he already likes, the ALA’s approach to promoting both prosperity and a better, healthier environment is a winner.
Over the past ten years, generous and civic-spirited people have invested thousands of hours of…
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins
