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  • Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum

    It was the very thought that came into my own head the moment I heard this: ‘Reality of our time’: Dutton warns Australians to prepare for war. Of course, my Latin is a bit rusty so the thought occurred to me only in English. However, the more up-to-date and erudite chaps and chapesses at The Spectator…

  • Open Thread – Tuesday 26 April 2022

  • Who can you trust?

    And what about those mask mandates?

  • The Libs are only around 45% socialist while Labor is 90%

    A proportion that must always be borne in mind by conservatives. The text below is from The Spectator Online. It’s a reminder that until Malcolm Turnbull pulled the pin on his own leadership, at least half the Liberal Party were for all practical purposes green-left socialists. No doubt something like that same proportion still are.…

  • Weekend Reading #2

    Little Giant Constitutionalism, Pat Smith, Ius & Iustitium The Many Agonies of Jacobin Magazine, Sohrab Ahmari, Compact The progressive war on sex, Heba Yosry, The Critic The Great and Unreliable Informant, Anthony Esolen, American Greatness The Rise And Fall Of The Conservative Movement, Declan Leary, The American Conservative

  • Growing up in Mao’s China

    A close and personal look at the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square Massacre The story of Amei’s life began in a warm and comfortable family in an inner suburb of Beijing. Her time in the selective high school is delightful until Mao reactivated the class war as a vehicle to retain his paramount leadership…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 23 April 2022

  • Guest post: Speedbox – China’s push into the Pacific

    The Chinese have signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands.  According to the MSM, and depending on your political persuasion, the signing of this pact is either the “worst Australian foreign policy blunder since WWII” (said Penny Wong) or “the judgement was made not to engage at a foreign-minister level to ensure that Australia’s…

  • An example of classical economics in the real world

    There is an article in The Oz on who used to be my favourite American president but is now only my second-favourite – Warren G. Harding. As the article points out, although he was president for only 29 months, he is regularly listed among the worst presidents in American history by that motley crew of…

  • On getting the politicians “they” deserve

    I missed the debate. I was out. I have it recorded, waiting to be watched. Do I really, really, have to watch it? I met a neighbour who said she’d watched it; said it was very civil. And that the audience behaved. Even more reasons not to watch it. She didn’t mention the incident of…