These awards recall the memory of the warrior/educator/administrator and ruler Alfred, generally acknowledged as “the Great” (849-899) who expelled Danes from Wessex and eventually from England. He used to be known to every primary school child, if only for the legend that he went to sleep in a humble cottage while he was on the…

Our fellow travellers at work  The Energy Realists    Vagabond Jo Nova    The Monarchists Quadrant The Free Press Bettina Arndt Menzies IPA      The Sydney Institute Mannkal CIS   Taxpayers   Alexandra Marshall `   Australian Inst for Progress The Energy Realists (again). Check out the briefing notes that were sent to 800 state and federal reps and over a hundred journalists…

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With the closure of Liddell power station we have crossed the line into uncharted territory. Now it actually matters whether the wind blows continuously, or at last between sunset and sunrise.  it does not, although continental wind droughts have only been studied since about 2010 when Paul Miskelly and others started to look at the…

In the Centre for Independent Studies quarterly Policy magazine. EXTRACTS DE Soto. Only about 5 per cent of Peruvians belong to labour unions and more than 60 per cent are operating as entrepreneurs in the informal or black ecoqomy. Informal operators do not regard themselves as either the private or the public sector because they…

From CIS Policy quarterly in Winter 1989

Drop in and see what the usual suspects are up to CIS   The Energy Realists     The Conservative Vagabond Jo Nova    The Monarachists Quadrant on line The Free Press IPA Climate and energy program      The Sydney Institute Mannkal     Menzies Research Centre    Taxpayers   Alexandra Marshall  Advance Australia     Australian Inst for Progress Bettina Arndt REMEMBERING JOHN HYDE. His…

An important post by Jo Nova on the Censorship Industrial Complex, an echo of the Military Industrial Complex that grew up after WW2 and an advanced form of the Climate Industrial Complex that spread fake news and started to get serious about censoring dissident voices. A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS To simplify the message that…

Question. Write a 2000 word review of The Open Soceity and Its Enemies by Karl Popper The money quote. He warns that any attempt to suppress intellectual freedom, whether through censorship or propaganda, will inevitably lead to the suppression of all other freedoms, and ultimately to the destruction of the open society itself. Karl Popper’s…

Generally dandys don’t get a very good press but a conservative hippy has come to their defence. This prompts a memory of Sir Roderick Murchison, a great entrepreneur of science. This is a review of a book about his life and work, in a collection of papers on the theme Making Science Pay. The main…