Having been diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic I have regular fasting blood tests to check my sugar level. Just another burden of advancing years though, of course, it strikes people of all ages. I don’t mind; it does not interfere with my daily intake of red wine. Anyway, I called into the medical clinic…

I was pondering my life when walking to coffee this morning. The trigger was an article in Friday’s Oz by Jack the Insider (JTI). He was on about Christianity. Best to leave that to Greg Sheridan – he who no longer refers to Donald Trump as a despicable human being but who, so far as…

After coffee with some (conservative, of course) friends on Friday morning I wandered into Coles to buy some groceries. I went to one of the few manned checkouts that they have these days. There was no queue and I proceeded to unload my stuff onto the conveyor belt – if that is what it’s called.…

Back in the day I used to think environmentalists played a useful role in society. True they went too far but that, I thought, was a beneficial counterbalance to the disregard capitalists sometimes have for generating negative externalities. Think of despoiling river systems. Alas, in my naivety, I didn’t think we would end up where…

Wandered into a Coles supermarket on Friday. Asked three assistants whether they had Australian flags for sale. They were all, shall we say, recent immigrants. Only one, the last, knew. And she kindly directed me to an obscure section of shelf space measuring no more than nine inches across (look it up if you want…

“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…