Month: September 2026

Look on at the articles about coal and oil in Australia and the US in today’s Daily Links and weep. The attached photograph says it all. ———- Forwarded message ———From: …

As my late mate Philip was wont to observe, when you travel without hope, there are few disappointments. He would say this as we’d set off to try to find …

There are malign influencers in our politics and we need both the laws and their enforcement if we are to avoid them. The Plymouth Bretheren, Clive Palmer and Pauline Hanson …

People don’t change from a current comfort level, no matter how tenuously held, unless it is so overcome by discomfort that a new level must be found. A monstrous data …

His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition are as anachronistic as His Majesty. Angus ‘Fantastic’ and Dynamic Dan would have us either back in the dark satanic mills smudged with coal dust or eating …

When we are already in unprecedented times, projecting from the past and expecting incrementalism just will not do. Good policy needs honest input, Jim Chalmers you’re better than this. https://michaelwest.com.au/intergenerational-report-forecasts-from-false-assumptions-downplay-the-risks/ …

We’ve always regarded SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, to refer to our psyche through the long, cold dismal days of winter , the unrelenting greyness of it all, only very slightly offset …

Ronald Stein of the Heartland Institute will try any argument to prosecute the case for nuclear energy. The prospect of the private sector, beset as it is with rapacious rent-seekers, in charge …

“Open the pod bay doors, HAL”. “I can’t do that, Dave”. HAL, the onboard computer had read Dave’s lips to know of his intention to disable it. Dave was outside the capsule and …

Perhaps Venice is the new Atlantis, the city that disappeared beneath the waves. Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are fond of parking their super yachts in the Lagoon, they’ll know about …