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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: John Stone
Setting off last September for a holiday, I packed John Howard’s “personal and political autobiography", Lazarus Rising (Harper Collins, 2010), which I had set aside for a time when I could read it without interruption.
The book is not without flaws – what autobiography ever is? – but I enjoyed it thoroughly.
It is well written and well composed. A reprint has since appeared, with an extra chapter dealing with political events since 2007. Recommended.
Over the Christmas-New Year period I look forward to reading the recently published The Conservatives: A History, by Robin Harris (Bantam Press).
Harris, a former director of the UK Conservative Party Research Department and then member of Margaret Thatcher’s Policy Unit in Downing Street, is superbly qualified to write this highly critical survey of the British Conservative Party since its emergence, under Disraeli, from its Tory Party predecessor. I can hardly wait.
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
