• What to do about wokeness?

    The conservative vagabond poses the question. Is there a coherent strategy for all the different groups that are under attack? Can we work together or are our disagreements too large to overlook? What do we need to do differently to be more effective? Who are the most interesting/challenging/helpful/original thinkers in this space?

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #66

    Star of stage, screen and alimony Was the epitaph suggested for himself by actor and comedian Peter Sellers. Sellers was a prodigious talent, touching on genius at times, although almost all of his best work had been completed by the mid 1960s. Born Richard Henry Sellers in 1925. He began accompanying his parents in a…

  • Liberty quote

    The process of self-transcendence through mutual growth and feedback is something that can be achieved in all walks of life and in all fields. It is possible for us to achieve it in our personal relations. It may not depend only on us, and it may lead to disappointments. But isappointments are met with in…

  • The looming Dark Age

    Mark Lawson, a versatile writer and fellow traveller with energy realism, has put together a book on the dismantling of the power grid. This grew out of a project to publish the briefing notes of the Energy Realists of Australia in a book. He took up the idea but abandoned the structure of the notes…

  • Rebranding the Liberals

    Lets try hippie conservatism A few thoughts, inspired by the example of Brian Penton, Karl Popper, Barry Humphries, Zorba the Greek (a man needs a little madness,) Yossarian (Catch 22) and the meditations of Montaigne, Oakeshott, Scruton and the conservative vagabond. Some want the party to be more conservative and some people want it to…

  • Men Ain’t Women and Vice Versa

    The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, published the results of some research in 2017 which was directed to try to explain the different incidences of particular diseases in men and women. Researchers analysed 20,000 different genes, sorting them by sex and for differences in expression in each body tissue. They found that around 6,500 of…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #65

    Follow the money Is the phrase, master screenwriter William Goldman attributed to Deep Throat (aka Mark Felt), the informant who took part in revealing the truth behind the June 1972 Watergate break-in in the superb 1976 political thriller All The President’s Men, although the phrase did not appear in the book or in any of the…

  1. Anyway, the Tasmanian wilderness, beloved of the Greens and their fellow travellers, reminds us that Mother Nature just wants to…