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Pugilistic Sexual Dysphoria and the Protection of XXs
Read a very long article here on the BBC’s website last week. In essence, it is a thinly-disguised apologia for the IOC’s decision to allow Imane Khelif to compete in women’s boxing despite being banned by the International Boxing Association (IBA), which governs amateur boxing. Is the chromosome test conducted by the IBA, which apparently…
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Here you didn’t see green hydrogen, now you don’t
Andrew (Twiggy) Forest is downsizing his green hydrogen ambitions. It’s funny really, outside of alchemy and perpetual motion there is little that can’t be done if enough money is thrown at it. There’s the rub. Money ruining everything again, even the dreams of climate cultists. A condition precedent for making affordable green hydrogen according to…
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Madame Cackle and her media mates
All of the crooked mainstream media (i.e., most of the MSM) are getting behind Madame Cackle. Air brushing is taking on a whole new meaning. She was never the border czar, apparently. And why wasn’t she the border czar? Because the border is broken. Why is the border broken? Because Biden-Harris undid Trump’s successful measures…
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All the drivel fit to print
I put together a piece yesterday (not yet up) about Donald Trump’s providential survival of an assassin’s bullet. A close shave indeed. In the course of writing, I noted that Paul Kelly (July 17) was true to dismal form in bucketing Trump. I queried why the Murdoch-owned national broadsheet gave so much space to anti-Trump…
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The curse of politicised priests
I have been lucky. For the last ten years or so I have attended a church without discovering the political beliefs of the two ministers in charge during that time; this despite having been on Parish Council for the past five years and having participating in lots of Bible-study sessions. Alas, after only a few…
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Fickle, Thy Name is Wind
It is a still in Sydney town, the trees show no movement, as I walk for the paper and a coffee on this Saturday morning. Mind you, it is sunny, so there’s that. No doubt the grid is being fed by households with subsidised rooftop solar panels and by the solar blots strewn across the…
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To serve or not to serve, that is the question
Received a letter from the NSW government dated May 30, informing me that I had been included on the jury roll from June 2024 to June 2025. In a subsequent, hard-on-the-heels, letter dated June 4, I was told that I had been randomly selected for jury duty for a trial of 12 weeks in estimated…
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Florence’s Futile Burrowing
I see that the Snowy 2.0 giant boring machine Florence, weighing 2400 tonnes and measuring 143 metres in length and 11 metres in diameter, is stuck again. It was stuck in soft ground between October 2022 and December 2023. It is now stuck in hard ground. Goldilocks-like, the machine only thrives in ground which is…
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Put on your lifebelts, Kids on the Bridge
Jim Chalmers had a piece in The Monthly in February 2023 “Capitalism after the crises,” in which he invented a new form of capitalism; namely, “values-based capitalism.” Before Jim’s new form of capitalism we have had inclusive capitalism, conscious capitalism, cooperative capitalism and stakeholder capitalism (courtesy of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum). Thus Jim is…
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Inflation on the Mend – For Now
Inflation is a terrible thing. It impacts people and businesses differently in ways difficult to control and manage. It robs people of their savings, particularly those on the wrong side of 60 years who are holding their savings in banks or in other fixed-income forms. It increases the cost of living for those who can…