When energy prices soar and blackouts ensue, as they will, forced rationing will become a fact of everyday life. Teals and well-to-do others will live in energy-secure communities, so worry not for their coiffured heads. Instead, fret at the accelerating slide into a world where the State and corporations make common cause

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As the Labor government contemplates interventions in the energy market of a damaging kind, it would be nice if facts took centre stage -- that cyclones have trended down since 1970-71 or that drought and monster floods are and have always been Australia's lot. What’s hard about conceding those facts? They undermine the narrative and that cannot be permitted

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In a saner and more disciplined world, Treasury might well come up with several well-defined options to deal with high energy prices, rigorously examine the potential consequences of each, and present the results for the government to decide. We no longer live in that world

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There are two explanations for voting left in today’s world, neither at all similar to my Dad's reasons for doing so in a different and now vanished world. One reason is the simple desire to tear down and destroy, much as a delinquent teen delights in vandalism for the sheer devilment of it. The other is a reflection of the first: arrested development

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Scott Morrison built up massive public debt to fund the premiers' lockdowns, a splurge that has disrupted the natural pattern of Labor running up debts the Coalition must service and shrink. Now it's up to Labor to repair the damage while pouring more billions down the green drain. Things are looking grim indeed

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The times are made for conservatism. They always are, but particularly in today’s world, where fringe causes monopolise the public square and irrational fears drown good sense. Workers are crying out for conservatism, without quite knowing they are. Ms Truss, alas, lacked the nous to open their eyes and the resolve to lead them there

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Left-wing, lately green-hued, governments, wreaking untold harm, would have been far fewer in the number but for sub-21-year-olds voting. Now George Williams, a constitutional scholar who really should know better, wants the voting age lowered to 16. As bad ideas go, this one takes the cake

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The attacks on Andrew Thorburn and his City on a Hill church came as no surprise, bigotry and intolerance being par for the course in our post-Christian and vindictive age. What did surprise was, with a few exceptions, the absence of any full-throated defence on the part of church leaders, most of whom seem shamefully reluctant to cite the Bible as the source and basis of their beliefs

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Of course, it’s not sufficient to condemn Giorgia Meloni's slogan 'God, nation and family', as the mainstream media and establishment pundits are doing. No, we must extol the polar opposites -- globalism, Gaia and good citizens who do as they are told. After all, ever-changing fads and fashions simply have to be respected

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If you've not heard of Italian physicist Gianluca Alimonti, no surprise there. As the lead author of a study that rates the so-called climate crisis as so much overblown nonsense, his is not the kind of news welcomed by vendors of green snake oil, rent-seekers and the climate hysterics in their thrall. So here for the record are some of his team's findings

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