I'll admit that, at one point, I favoured nuclear energy. No longer. For some countries fine, but certainly not for Australia, not with our abundance of coal and gas. Arguing for nuclear cedes the preposterous premise that we face a climate crisis when the imminent reckoning is with the consequences of decades of addled energy policies

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Charles attended his mother’s coronation. 'Look, it’s Mummy', he exclaimed. He was only four so his memory of the day must be faint, although a witness claimed that, as his mother took the Sovereign’s Sword, advanced with it to the altar and offered it to God, he watched enraptured. Now, at last, it is his turn

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After a dismissive mention by Chris Kenny in one of his pro-Voice exercises in mangled fact and history, I blitzed The Australian -- from its editor-in-chief down -- with a polite request for space to respond. No answer was forthcoming, so it will be here where I address the gross misconceptions under which a normally rational peddler of opinion continues to labour

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Parents who don't investigate what their kids are being taught probably retain a vague idea that teachers are looking after their darlings’ best interest. They have no idea how far teachers have stepped back from the blackboard to let the zealots behind Cool Australia's prefabricated lessons fill their classrooms with green propaganda and bare-faced lies

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Speech by Tony Thomas of Quadrant at the launch of Dr Mark Lopez’s book School Sucks (Connor Court) at Carlton Victoria,  May  1, 2023. Hi everyone, I’ve read Mark’s School Sucks book with great interest because it gets right into the grassroots of what is being taught in our schools.      The Institute of Public […]

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The expense of maintaining both a large standing military and an ongoing lead in technology is never ending and ultimately unsustainable. Where technology is concerned, catching up is always cheaper than finding and developing the next big advance

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We often hear the refrain ’If you don’t understand it, then don’t vote for it’. That is not a valid basis to vote No. That would provide a convenient fig leaf for frustrated Yes voters to argue their ‘we wuz robbed’ case. What we want is for No voters to be able to say 'I voted No because I did understand it’

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Conservative media personalities are invaluable for their balancing input, which is why, while we might differ on certain stances and specifics, the Tucker Carlsons and Andrew Bolts are vital. Indeed, they much more important now than when the other side was not so intent on undermining free speech, property rights, the nation state and Western values

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The pauses in Sandy's monologues were worthy of Beckett. Critics acclaimed  a ‘darkness reminiscent of Philip Larkin’,  ‘Ezra Pound with the lights out’ and a pervading ‘Checkovian melancholy’. Barry more prosaically described Sandy as the voice of a different and vanishing Melbourne 'talking in its sleep'

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Climate influencers seem a weird mob at first glance and, upon closer examination, even stranger. Nevertheless, in the grand tradition of the Left, they know how to organise, propagandise and do it mostly with other people's money. How is it that folks with such an addled appreciation of genuine science are so good at the dark arts of political and emotional manipulation?

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