“What is this? Some kind of insanity, some kind of sickness!?” So said conservative commentator Mark Levin on his Saturday show on Fox, when talking with Ron DeSantis. Being exasperated by open borders, FBI dereliction, politicisation of the law, DEI, transgenderism, by the whole baggage of woke. He cannot figure it out. His whole demeanour…

Having coffee on Friday and heard from one of the chaps who still watches the ABC that it was spruiking information that Uruguay (about 3.4 million people) now runs on close to 100 percent (?98%) renewable electricity. I said that this could not be true but, of course, wasn’t envisaging renewables in the form of…

Moira Deeming is back. Reportedly, the vote in the Liberal’s party room was 23 to 4. Who are the Gang of Four this time around? I don’t know. Nor do I know who the other ten are who previously voted to keep Deeming out just eight days before; apart from Pesutto. Nor do I know…

When it comes to energy generation, ‘all of the above’, gets my prize for the dumbest comment by centre righters / putative conservatives during the past year. Sky presenter Steve Price and National’s senator Matt Canavan come to mind, but there are numbers more. The difficulty for me is that these guys are on the…

Supercilious: “Having an air of contemptuous superiority.” (OED) I don’t know, but when I see Tanya Plibersek cavalierly cancelling a gold mine and Penny Wong continually dissing and deserting Israel in favour of Islamic terrorists, the descriptor supercilious springs to my mind. Is it just my male perspective or is it in fact hard to…

Penny Wong has become serially and seriously ruinous to Australia’s good standing in the civilised world. By the way, the civilised world is shrinking fast and now excludes the UK and Canada. What has changed is the malign influence of Islam and the unholy alliance which always builds between left-wing politics and Islam. They both…

Read on the front page of my Australian newspaper this morning that the Anglican Diocese of Perth – led by Archbishop Kay Goldsworth – now licences heterosexual fornication and homosexuality provided the consenting parties “take responsibility for their sexual conduct.” Whatever that means. Her defence, according to the article, was that other Australian dioceses do…

Suppose ten workers are employed to fulfil a continuous contractual obligation one of whom goes on irregular walkabouts – to risk using a politically incorrect term. That is fine because among the nine reliable workers there are those who are ever ready to fill in. Suppose two or even three workers become prone to downing…

Surprising, is it not, that Joe Biden is not calling on the military to prevent a fascist from gaining the presidency. What is not surprising is that Trump sees his revenge on those who spread calumny after calumny about him and who waged continual lawfare on him only in terms of being successful in making…

Here is the popular vote (in millions rounded to the nearest thousand) for the winners and losers in U.S. presidential elections from 2000 onwards, including the latest figures (Nov 8) for 2024. In brackets I have put the total percentage of the vote of the two candidates combined. You can check my numbers here. 2000…