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Unlike the renewables industry, its green rent-seekers and Chris Bowen, numbers tell the truth
Sep 22 2024
4 mins
Before Ian Fleming and all the other authors who have made heroes of the wrongly accused there was John Buchan's urbane Richard Hannay
Sep 21 2024
12 mins
At 75, I have achieved 'old age'. I welcome it and am glad about it and, with some reservations, intend to keep on growing older
Sep 21 2024
10 mins
Christmas 2011: Gavin Atkins
A Point of View is a reminder in the form of a literary crash tackle that Clive James is, and always has been, one of the world’s great essayists.
An opinion writer who respects you enough to let you draw your own conclusions is a rare and wondrous thing. James has a brilliant way of just suggesting he has an opinion by taking you
on what seems like an aimless Sunday drive and pointing out life’s absurdities.
A Point of View is a perfect summer read, and Santa has been informed that I want Cultural Amnesia from his back catalogue.
By the way, if anyone can provide a decent explanation as to why there is not a huge statue of a stern but benevolent Clive James standing astride the Princes Highway at Kogarah, I want to hear it – and then shower them with abuse.
For something different, if you think you can stand a little science, Radiation and Reason by Professor Wade Allison will open your eyes to the bizarre culture of fear that has developed around everything nuclear, and explains exactly why few casualties will result from the Fukushima accident.
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
