New Catallaxy

  • Environmentalism vs “green” power

    How much longer can people who claim to care about the health of the planet put up with the wind and solar power industries? Public opinion in the US appears to be trending our way. An overwhelming majority of Americans say that conserving local land and wildlife is more important than building new sources of…

  • Whats wrong with Australia

    In a single job advertisement.

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #69

    Good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now Based on the 1844 novel The Luck Of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon (released in 1975) recounts the exploits and later unravelling of an 18th-century Irish rogue and social climber who marries a beautiful rich widow to assume her…

  • Snowy2.0 update

    Today there is a report in The Australian on the latest official news about Snowy2.0. It is still going on, so we can expect more bad news for some years to come:) My comment was published on line, with a reference to our briefing note 22.8 which shows that it is a dog of a…

  • The people’s vote

    This week in The Spectator Mike Ryan revived the idea of the citizen-initiated referendum. This is a welcome suggestion and it recalls the memory that in 1987 the Centre For Independent Studies published a very well researched book on the various forms of the citizen’s vote, including the provision for recalling politicians who don’t take…

  • Why Tucker Had To Go

    No one at present has been a thorn in the side of established liberal regime than Tucker Carlson. On any range of issues, whether immigration, gender ideology, endless war, COVID policy, Tucker has been relentlessly providing a platform to heterodox opinions across both the left and right, and by doing so, has done the most…

  • Open Thread – Tues 2 May 2023

  • Captain Cook, seaman

    We read in The Spectator this morning that Captain Cook has been effectively cancelled in the National Curriculum for schools. To set the record straight, there is a stirring account of Cook’s career in the very first edition of Quadrant in 1956 which appeared in 1956. This is the article, with the editor’s introduction to…

  • On the disputed origins of Woke ideology

    Over the weekend, a lot of interest was generated by the following video of James Lindsay at the EU parliament exploring the origins of woke ideology: Here is a transcript of the talk provided by Gilas: The definition of Equity – Woke is Maoism with Western characteristics. Hello. Thank you. I’m glad to be here.…

  • An antipodean constitutional arrangement in King Charles’ Court (with apologies to Mark Twain).

    Next week in Westminster Abbey, Charles Philip Arthur George will be crowned King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of His other Realms and Territories. But not everyone is happy at this renewal of the monarchy and would prefer in place of it a republic. Of course each…

  1. You sort of missed out the bit of history where the Russians gobbled up as much of Europe as part…

  3. Interesting the way the artist has arranged the near wing- quite effective. If one such appeared on your porch of…

  4. Bit like my Prostate removal .. 3 to 6 weeks they said then things will improve .. 3 months later…

  5. Anyone accessed the Herald Sun today.?I can just see the headlines, there seems to be three articles detailing things going…

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