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Decarbonization: chemo for the planet
Every day we read about the need to accelerate the exit of coal from our power supply in the interests of decarbonization to meet a target of emission reduction to keep the heating of the planet down to 1.5C, in case it matters. So much about that agenda is wrong that it makes my head…
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What Happens In Wieambilla, Stays In Wieambilla
Six people died at Wieambilla. Not two. Not three. But six. Almost lost in the public clamour about the deaths of the police officers, is the death of the neighbour, already attributed to the now-dead occupants of the property. Unlike the police officers, he was not doing his job, he was not following the orders…
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Andrew Norton on higher education policy
Andrew Norton (the only classical liberal in Carlton) has made a career out of keeping an eye on developments in higher education after a spell as the editor of the Policy quarterly at the Centre for Independent Studies. This is a meditation on 25 years in the business. Twenty-five years ago today I started my…
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Gary Johns and Karl Popper on ethnic self-determinism
Gary Johns has written a lucid and compelling book to support the resistance to The Voice (The Burden of Culture, Quadrant books.) He points out that the demand goes far beyond fixing obvious problems to something very different – the demand for self-determism for ethnic and racial minorities. Popper sounded an alarm about this movement…
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Downside of EVs. Not enough power
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/12/29/energy-crisis-risks-dooming-electric-car/ EXTRACT Western societies are charging into the electrification of transport and heating without actually providing the electricity. This cannot be wished away. In January, the then secretary of state for trade in Britain, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, told Parliament that “we are going to be requiring up to four times as much electricity” to meet demand for…
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Open Thread – New Year’s Weekend 2023
The Dreamer, Casper Friedrich, 1840
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Congratulations to the British Free Speech Union
This is the summary report of the activities of the FSU in 2022. Congratulations to Toby Young and his colleagues. BTW Toby has a regular column in The Spectator.
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Blackouts – the new normal?
Early in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith watched his fellow citizens react to an announcement that the government was “raising” their chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. Winston remembered the announcement from the previous day, however: the government was reducing the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. He marveled as everyone all celebrated what…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #51
Is cinema dying ? As I write this last post for the year, a feeling of melancholy and sadness is with me as I write about what I believe is that movies and the thrill of going to the cinema and luxuriating in the magic of the big screen appears to be dying. There was…
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Abundant cheap renewable energy? Imagining will make it so
Drove to Melbourne and back a few weeks ago. Haven’t driven interstate for decades; haven’t owned a car for about eight years. Could I still drive? Still not sure because the Hume Highway offers little challenges. Two generous lanes, dual carriageway, all the way. Rest areas aplenty. Not long out of England, many decades ago,…
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