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  • Guest Post: Speedbox – Love by Mail

    My recent post about Russia’s declining population led me off on a tangent where I found myself wondering what, if any, impact the ‘mail order’ bride phenomenon had on that decline. In fact, mail order brides are not new and date back to the 1600’s with Britain and France both using it to populate and…

  • Free speech is your only protection from a tyrannical government

    Let me come back to my articles on conservatism that was published in Quadrant at the end of last year. Here’s the conclusion at the end of the second article, Conservative Thought in the Time of Covid (Part II): These are the elements of conservatism as it needs to be understood if we are to defend…

  • Guest Post: Speedbox – Saudi Arabia, the Houthi and the UAE

    The conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthi rebels in Yemen has been going on since 2015.  It has simmered away with various clashes between 2015-2020 but 2021 saw a dramatic escalation in strikes by the Houthi and strikes/retaliation by the Saudis. For background, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sharing a land border on the Arabian…

  • Meme of the Day #12

  • The game’s up, but Aussie politicians won’t notice

    Just read the latest weekly NSW Covid Surveillance Report. Among other data covering the seven weeks to 15 January, it provides figures (table 6) for those infected who suffered a severe outcome; i.e., “ICU and/or death.” Of the 614 people concerned 467 had been either double or triple vaxxed. While it is true that 467…

  • Guest Post: Speedbox – Populate or Perish

    Newscorp.com.au recently posted a story about the declining population of Russia.  Whilst fundamentally true, I thought I would take a deeper look. Immediately prior to the fall of the USSR in 1991, Russia’s population was 148.3m people with a fertility rate of 1.77.  Considering everything the Russian people had been through in the preceding years,…

  • Why are we taking medical advice from Daniel Andrews and Anthony Fauci?

    From a comments thread at Instapundit. Of course you wouldn’t want to doubt the vaccines. Correlation is NOT causation, but it is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for causation. If the vaccines work, then high vaccination rates MUST be correlated w/ lower death rates ABSENT a confounding variable. Of course, the mere fact that confounding…

  • The True North Strong and Free

    Seldom think of the old Dominion as the centre of international revolutionary action, but there you are. This is amazing, from Gone, Baby, Gone?, which is about the Canadian Prime Minister running away in the face of the truckers’ convention on the streets of Ottawa. This morning, I tested positive for COVID-19. I’m feeling fine –…

  • Open Thread – Mon 31 Jan 2022

  • Australian media blockades the truth

    As I write this there’s a convoy of trucks that are effectively blockading Ottawa, Canada. It has been brewing for a week now and has been pretty hard to miss but then, I don’t take any of my news from local news sources. On Friday I worked with my business partner who is a very…