Month: February 2023

  • A good call on Twiggy Forest

    This journo has got Twiggy’s number Joe Aston of the Fin Review has written two killer articles on Twiggy Forest in recent times. On Sunday he wrote an account of the meeting last week when Fortescue reported their interim earnings. On Aston’s account there was a disturbing lack of connection with people who wanted to…

  • The debacle of Snowy2.0

    Lets be clear that the quest for net zero emissions has turned into the most disastrous policy bungle in our national history, wartime included, whether you go back to 1900 or 1788. That can be explained by reference to the Iron Triangle of Power Supply in the electricity grid, bearing in mind to the logic…

  • Balloonacy

    You will remember THE Chinese Spy Balloon. The big white one with the dangly bits. It was a remarkably capable balloon, as you would expect from a spy balloon. One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the balloon was able to linger in the winds over specific areas.“We saw it do that. It…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 18 Feb 2023

    The White Horse, John Constable, 1819

  • Prideland

    I have often wondered what it must have been like for ordinary people in Russia, China, Germany, Cambodia, Korea, Iran, and other countries, to wake up and realise they were living in a country that had been overtaken by a sinister, fringe, and radical political ideology. Did they think the political madness would pass and…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #58

    A nation awaits its . . . Downfall (Der Untergang) released in 2004 and brilliantly directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, vividly recounts the last days of Hitler’s Nazi Germany in Berlin. This has been filmed numerous times before but none have come remotely close to matching this films depiction of the utter collapse and moral bankruptcy…

  • Money is the root of all inflation

    Had a blog on Quadrant Online on inflation. Basically gazumped by the Voice. So I thought I would share a slightly condensed version. Who knows some people might still be interested in economics, what with the Voice, climate change, transgenderism, and what not going on. There’s lots of talk about Philip Lowe’s tenure at the…

  • Open Thread – Tues 14 Feb 2023

    Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, Rembrandt, 1656

  • Looking at RE through the wrong end of the telescope

    Parallel universes and the revised energy story. According to the official narrative we are accelerating the move from dirty fossil power to clean and green power from sun and wind. That is the story in the developed nations of the west. In the other universe described by Mark Mills, we have gone as far as…

  • Meme of the Day #65