Utopia, you are standing in it!

National’s “fiscal plan” came out this afternoon. To no one’s great surprise I guess, we didn’t learn much from it. The big National numbers had been in the Back Pocket Boost package a few weeks ago, combined with the statement from Willis last week that National would get back to an OBEGAL surplus no sooner […]

0.7 per cent of GDP

Yesterday I wrote a post about how two anthropological societies decided to cancel a panel on the biology of sex and gender because they considered it “harmful” to the listeners. As I wrote: I’m probably late to the party, but the latest gossip about the Authoritarian Left involves the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the…

More on the canceled anthropology panel on sex: an anthropology society defends deplatforming the panel as transphobic

Chris Trotter writes – IN THE CURRENT MIX of electoral alternatives, there is no longer a credible left-wing party. Not when “a credible left-wing party” is defined as: a class-oriented, mass-based, democratically-structured political organisation; dedicated to promoting ideas sharply critical of laissez-faire capitalism; and committed to advancing democratic, egalitarian and emancipatory ideals across the whole […]

CHRIS TROTTER: Losing the Left

By Paul Homewood Euan Mearns sent me this letter he has had published  in his local newspaper:   He tells me there is a serious error in the print version, but the correct version is below:

Public need to be able to scrutinise the true costs on net-zero energy policy–Euan Mearns

I’m probably late to the party, but the latest gossip about the Authoritarian Left involves the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) deciding to deplatform an entire symposium on sex and gender in anthropology—all because of the claim that it could cause mental “harm”to some people. Thyere are three letters involved, […]

More mishigas: Two anthropology societies cancel an accepted symposium on sex and gender because it would “harm” their members

Texas is littered with solar panels and wind turbines, but don’t expect them to deliver power as and when you need it. As happens most years, wind turbines across Texas have been on their annual summer vacation, for weeks now. In their absence, solar is able to pitch in for a while, but sunset has […]

Texans Left Scrambling For Power As Wind Turbines Take Another Summer Vacation

Modern historians conventionally regard Augustus as the first emperor, whereas Julius Caesar is considered the last dictator of the Roman Republic, a view having its origins in the Roman writers Plutarch, Tacitus, and Cassius Dio. Conversely, the majority of Roman writers, including Josephus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius and Appian, as well as most of the […]

When is an Emperor not an Emperor?: Caesar Augustus. Part II.

A Politician’s Propensity toward Platitude Destroys His Career After Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, addressed a joint sitting of the House of Commons and Senate on Thursday, 21 September 2023, Anthony Rota, the Speaker of the House of Commons, recognised an elderly man in the galleries: “We have here in the chamber today a […]

Anthony Rota Resigns in Disgrace as Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada

In a chilling message, former President Trump pledged to investigate Comcast if he is elected in 2024. Trump insisted that the parent company for NBC and MSNBC “will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things, and events.” The stated grounds are “country threatening treason.” The pledge is not simply […]

Trump Pledges to Investigate Comcast for “Country Threatening Treason”

I’ve never been a huge fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson, but at least he was good at conveying the wonders of physics and cosmology.  My one problem with him as a science communicator was that he tried too hard to cater to his audience, as if making them like him was one of his main…

Neil deGrasse Tyson goes after women’s-only spaces

Another blow for net-zero dogmatists. More evidence that cheap offshore wind power doesn’t exist and nobody can control its costs, or be sure of a good level of reliability. – – – Global Underwater Hub (GUH) is leading the charge to tackle failures in underwater cables which could derail global offshore wind ambitions, says AGCC. […]

Subsea cable failures could derail offshore wind ambitions – insurance costs ‘becoming prohibitive’

My book Why Evolution is True has been translated into 18 languages, and one of them was Hebrew. I was pleased about that because many Orthodox Jews are Biblical creationists and I wanted them to at least have a shot at learning about the evidence for evolution. In fact, I know of at least two American […]

An Israeli Jew rejects “Why Evolution is True”

TweetPhil Magness decries “academic lies about free-market economists.” Two slices: The academic history profession has a problem with intellectual integrity. Over the past decade, a cottage industry has emerged in elite university departments that explicitly aims to tear down free-market economists (often misnamed as “neoliberals”) by accusing them of racism, fascism, and similarly discredited beliefs.…

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