This journo has got Twiggy’s number Joe Aston of the Fin Review has written two killer articles on Twiggy Forest in recent times. On Sunday he wrote an account of the meeting last week when Fortescue reported their interim earnings. On Aston’s account there was a disturbing lack of connection with people who wanted to…

Lets be clear that the quest for net zero emissions has turned into the most disastrous policy bungle in our national history, wartime included, whether you go back to 1900 or 1788. That can be explained by reference to the Iron Triangle of Power Supply in the electricity grid, bearing in mind to the logic…

You will remember THE Chinese Spy Balloon. The big white one with the dangly bits. It was a remarkably capable balloon, as you would expect from a spy balloon. One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the balloon was able to linger in the winds over specific areas.“We saw it do that. It…

The White Horse, John Constable, 1819

Had a blog on Quadrant Online on inflation. Basically gazumped by the Voice. So I thought I would share a slightly condensed version. Who knows some people might still be interested in economics, what with the Voice, climate change, transgenderism, and what not going on. There’s lots of talk about Philip Lowe’s tenure at the…

Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, Rembrandt, 1656

Parallel universes and the revised energy story. According to the official narrative we are accelerating the move from dirty fossil power to clean and green power from sun and wind. That is the story in the developed nations of the west. In the other universe described by Mark Mills, we have gone as far as…

h/t: Jung

Impact of lockdown on babies This is a disturbing account of the way babies were denied normal human contacts during lockdown. Of course they were not the only ones, it is just another chapter in the ghastly story. Civilisation has a thin crust that normally restrains tendencies to barbarism until it gives way in times…