Month: September 2022

  • Not enough “oats” in the European power supply?

    Everyone knows the sad story about the farmer who decided to save some money by reducing the ration of oats for his horse. He started with a reduction of 10% and it didn’t seem to matter so he cut another 10% and then another. He was saving money hand over fist but then the animal…

  • War without an end game, what do you think?

    Liberals, using the U.S. nomenclature, are in favour of renewable energy, against fossil fuels, promote abortion on demand up to the time of birth, promote gay marriage, promote transgender rights (including the right of men in frocks to compete with women in sports and enter women’s change rooms), promote teaching critical race theory to schoolchildren…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #37

    Guv’nor After a weeks’ sorjorn in Auckland New Zealand visiting family, I’m back to resume my weekly film post. The gangster genre has been a staple in cinema ever since the medium begun. In America, the emphasis tended towards the Mafia and other various ethnic origins, but in the UK the genre was never quite…

  • Weekday Reading #23

    Mark Movsesian in Compact discusses the geopolitical situation of Armenia. Will Charles III be the Perennialist King we are hoping for? Esmé Partridge makes the affirmative case at UnHerd. Dan Simons picks over the remains of Britain following the death of QE2 at IM-1776. While at Quadrant, Anthony Daniels (aka Theodore Dalrymple) discusses the role…

  • Meme of the Day #56

  • Our biggest peacetime policy blunder ever

    Epic Failure of Planning for the Green Energy Transition Briefing Note 22.9                September 2022 Purpose: To signal that the transition from coal cannot go any further without nuclear power. The critical issue. The combination of wind droughts and the lack of grid-scale storage dictate that any further loss of coal-fired power capacity will pose serious…

  • Open Thread – Tues 20 Sept 2022

  • Weekend Reading #5

    Over at The Lamp Magazine, Peter Hitchens reflects on the Christian background of the British (and European) monarchy and why it inevitably is a sign of contradiction to all moderns. Mark Granza interviews Darren Beattie about the next stage of Populism in IM-1776. Stone Age Herbalist discusses the metaphysics that underlay the Aztec’s justification of…

  • Rafe’s Roundup Sept 17

    James McPherson Report The disintegration of Russian/German economic affairs – first shots of a new trade war The Chinese fast trains trillion dollar debt disaster. Energy Matters Idiots guide to the Hydrogen Hype.  Pay attention Twiggy! The green energy transition has hit the wall. Save our Coal Power Stations! More Roundups from the archive Roundup…

  • What is happening and why

    Guest post from Cardimona There is not a shred of evidence that CO2 has the capacity to “trap heat” or affect the climate “dangerously”. No scientific research paper has ever empirically proven that oft-repeated assertion. It has always been based on faulty maths, contrived research, and propaganda. That’s why sea levels haven’t risen, cyclones aren’t…