New Catallaxy

This is an excellent and brief presentation of midwits as a new political and social class in the early 21st century. Conservatives would do well to consider how to circumvent such behaviour which can really only occur by removing the incentives and/ or by imposing higher costs because we are typically its target. I heartily…

Six so-called teals (=Climate 200) candidates defeated sitting Liberals. Here are the first-preference numbers to date with around 80 percent plus or minus of votes counted. Curtin (WA) Celia Hammond (Lib) 42.4% Kate Chaney (teal) 30.0% Labor / Greens 22.1% Goldstein (Vic) Tim Wilson (Lib) 41% Zoe Daniel (teal) 35.3% Labor / Greens 17.7% Kooyong…

Operation: Daybreak (Anthropoid) Tomorrow, May 27th, will be the 80th anniversary of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, the Nazi commander of the Reich Main Security Office and the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Although not initially killed in the attack on May 27th, Heydrich died of his wounds on…

Saw this on Instapundit: WELL, NO. IT MIGHT BE COMING. I MEAN, THEY WANT TO GO CARBON-FREE:  Australia Becoming Unlivable–BBC. Personally, seeing this mentioned by the Poms on an American website does make me laugh. I can only say I consider it my greatest good fortune that I ended up in Australia, not in Canada where…

The voter turnout numbers from the AEC site are astonishing. Nearly 30% of Australian voters boycotted the election. The lowest turnouts are in the inner city seats consecutively, look at the comparisons to 2019: Electorate, Turnout %, Enrolled, Marked Off, Turnout % Relative to 2019Melbourne 61.4 114447 70270 -28.22Sydney 61.83 125421 77550 -24.47Brisbane 62.46 125241 78223 -28.05Perth 62.63 122719 76856 -26.9 The highest turnout in all of Australia…