Everyone is suddenly wise after the event – except about the wrong event. Behold, David Crowe in the SMH, presenting what has become conventional wisdom since last Sunday: Energy crisis: A crash we all saw coming but did nothing to stop After years of slow failure in plain sight, the Australian energy system has hit…

In the OT over the weekend, I asserted that the reductio of liberalism involved drag queen shows for kids, among other things, one of these other things being gay ‘marriage’, or what I prefer to call marriage redefinition. Let me explain this argument by comparing Locke’s view of marriage with the view of classical liberals…

Not a lot to say about this one, it’s quite self explanatory. Flares, long hair, massive quantities of illicit substances and many, many guitars, leavened with as much self-indulgence as required. Without even initially realising it, some of my favourite ever songs fit neatly into this genre, by artists such as Bowie, the Stones, Lou,…