New Catallaxy

  • The subs, a small price for having a big brother

    I am not onside with much of what Paul Keating said about China and the subs. Nonetheless, the idea of making UK-designed nuclear subs in South Australia from the 2040s onwards seems like pie-in-the-sky. Ironically, they will need to made from electricity produced by the wind and sun; both ends of the evolutionary progress of…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 18 March 2023

    Landscape with a Hunter – Valaam Island, Ivan Shishkin, 1867

  • Power on the brink

    More red flags are flying for the power supply and more badly-informed commentary from RenewEconom and the Fin Review. This (Friday) morning the wind supply was negligible in SA and Victoria, just like Wednesday which was reported on Climate Realism, a Heartland Institute site. This evening at sunset, wind in Victoria was generating 3% of…

  • A constitutional change that we all can agree on.

    This year, constitutional change is in the air. But like so many previous attempts to alter the Australian Constitution, this one – the creation of an Aboriginal Voice – is being shown to be every bit as controversial as most earlier attempts at change. In medical parlance: “the patient is not looking good.” But the…

  • Cool Hand Karl is back

    Sheriff Popper has come to town to gun down the historicists and restore law and order on the streets of the Open Society. He has opened a Facebook account, set up a substack and hangs out with his deputies in a smoke-free salon to drink weak tea, and shoot the breeze with Bach and Mozart…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #62

    Queen of Diamonds Released in 1962, The Manchurian Candidate stands as one of the most insanely plotted and brilliantly executed political thrillers ever made. The plot centres on Korean War veteran Raymond Shaw (played by Laurence Harvey), who is part of a prominent political family. Shaw is brainwashed by Chinese and Soviet communists after his…

  • RIP NET ZERO

    Wind-leading states show the way On Wednesday morning, before breakfast, South Australia and Victoria demonstrated why the net zero dream is actually a nightmare. The logic of the Iron Triangle of Power Supply signals that there must be a continuous delivery of power to the grid to meet demand. Ignore the peaks of wind and…

  • Meme of the Day #67

    h/t: Aimee Terese

  • Jeff Grimshaw, NotKean for Hornsby

    Support Jeff Grimshaw, taking on the Green Blob Matt Kean for the seat of Hornsby in the NSW election. As the east coast of Australia stares down the barrel of blackouts and brown outs, with an electricity grid on the verge of imploding, the NSW Government continues to charge towards the precipice of an energy disaster.…

  • Open Thread – Tue 14 March 2023

    Extreme Unction, Nicolas Poussin, 1646

  1. Still waiting to hear if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kash_Patel#Post-government_career gets a guernsey in Trump’s cabinet. Wasn’t he touted not long ago as favourite…

  3. Sancho, absolutely. I expected better from my bilateral knee replacement. However, apart from the rehab in hospital, I wasn’t able…

  4. accusing them of eating their patients Eating Fido? That’s terrible! Dog chow mein, yum.

  5. I have been a journalist all my life. My instinct is that Hildebrand is being paid to be a political…

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