Utopia, you are standing in it!

So Diane Feinstein did not make it to the political finish line of 2025. Suffering from numerous ailments, including senility, and often absent from the Senate, and having announced that she would retire at the end of this term, she finally died the other day at the age of 90. Despite attacks on her by […]

Death and popcorn

I don’t suppose anybody will be terribly surprised when I say that my party vote will be going to ACT on 14 October. I was a proud member of the National Party when I was in Parliament between 2002 and early 2007, and of course when I was Leader of that Party between late 2003…

DON BRASH: WHY MY PARTY VOTE WILL BE GOING TO ACT

Want to make a small fortune in the offshore wind industry? Then start with a large one. In the absence of endless subsidies and guaranteed, fixed-price contracts (set at ludicrously high prices), the purported economic case for wind power never, ever stacks up. And the numbers are far worse out at sea. Take a machine […]

Not For Profit: Offshore Wind Power Projects Wiped Out By Rising Costs

This morning, I will testify in the first hearing of the impeachment inquiry of President Joseph Biden. The hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability will start at 10am in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building. My written testimony is below.

Turley Testifies at Biden Impeachment Hearing

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”