New Catallaxy

Penny Wong has become serially and seriously ruinous to Australia’s good standing in the civilised world. By the way, the civilised world is shrinking fast and now excludes the UK and Canada. What has changed is the malign influence of Islam and the unholy alliance which always builds between left-wing politics and Islam. They both…

Most protagonists of nuclear power like to say it is clean, meaning no CO2 is released, as though this desirable. Certainly it is a selling point for people who think that carbon dioxide is the driver of potentially lethal global warming. In fact carbon dioxide it is the foundation of life on earth, “the breath…

Read on the front page of my Australian newspaper this morning that the Anglican Diocese of Perth – led by Archbishop Kay Goldsworth – now licences heterosexual fornication and homosexuality provided the consenting parties “take responsibility for their sexual conduct.” Whatever that means. Her defence, according to the article, was that other Australian dioceses do…

Suppose ten workers are employed to fulfil a continuous contractual obligation one of whom goes on irregular walkabouts – to risk using a politically incorrect term. That is fine because among the nine reliable workers there are those who are ever ready to fill in. Suppose two or even three workers become prone to downing…