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WolfmanOz at the Movies #91
Post War British comedies. To kick off 2024 I thought I’d discuss something a bit more cheerful given the doom and gloom that pretty well surrounds us all in the world today (the topic was suggested by SandyK in an earlier post from late last year). With the end of World War II, Great Britain…
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Neither Islam (bad) nor Christianity (good) have materially changed
I have a piece coming up on Quadrant Online about hate speech, free speech and Islam (now up). Henry Ergas covered a similar theme in Friday’s Australian newspaper under the heading of “Hate Speech underlines how Islam has changed.” Surprise-surprise, his is more erudite. On the other hand, mine is understandable by the common man…
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Cost of offshore wind
RUPERT DARWALL ON THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE Offshore wind was never going to happen here due to the real cost and also the wind droughts at sea demonstrated by King Island which still draws half its power from diesel despite megabucks spent on wind, solar and batteries.
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Partition blues are only for the Jews
History has seen many countries and geographical areas divided by partition. In Europe, two recent examples are Belgian and Luxembourg. Both countries were established by partitioning off southern parts of the kingdom of the Netherlands in the 1800s. Historical and present-day geographical partitions are usually due to existing ethnic, religious, cultural and language divisions and…
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Modelling used in the Garnault report to justify Rudd’s CPRS (which Turnbull fully supported and lost his opposition leadership as…
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Yes, but Brian was very successful.
Trump should be pulling the House and Senate leaders in for meetings in front of the media every week a…