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The Comfortable Road to Ruin
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Simon Stiell: the one-man climate disaster lectures Australia
Simon Stiell, the UN’s High Commissioner of Climate Alarmism – or, more officially, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – has touched down in Australia. The carbon footprint from his first-class jaunt, stretching over 17,000 kilometres, would make a coal train blush. But never mind that – he’s here to save us from ourselves. According to Stiell, Australia is failing to ‘lift its clean-energy ambitions’.
The decline of the West: a lament from above
In the voice of Winston Spencer Churchill, published from On High. As I gaze down from the eternal battlements of Heaven, my heart is heavy with dismay at the state of the English-speaking world. The great democracies for which so many sacrificed their lives – men and women who stood in the breach against tyranny – now falter under the weight of their own incompetence, corruption, and ideological decay.
Is Australia copying Pakistan’s electricity grid? ‘The absurdity of power shortages in a first-world, resource-rich nation’ - ‘The public should be utterly furious that ‘cheap’ ‘green’ energy has plundered our grid’ - Climate Depot
#GreenScam @realDonaldTrump @DOGE “[T]he absurdity of power shortages in a first-world, resource-rich nation when the truth is the Australian public should be utterly furious that ‘cheap’ ‘green’ energy has plundered our grid.”https://t.co/vI1E9apAaf — Darren Brady Nelson (@DarrenBNelson) December 3, 2024 https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/12/is-australia-copying-pakistans-electricity-grid/ Paul Lindwall In the quiet residential enclaves of Islamabad, my wife and I learned to live with an...
Is Australia copying Pakistan’s electricity grid?
In the quiet residential enclaves of Islamabad, my wife and I learned to live with an unreliable electricity network. Blackouts were not an inconvenience but a daily certainty. For most, it meant enduring sweltering summers without air conditioning or navigating candlelit evenings. For the wealthy, however, life barely skipped a beat. Unlimited access to spectator.com.au and app The weekly edition on the Spectator Australia app Spectator podcasts and newsletters Full access to spectator.co.uk Or
Why not declare Andrew Barr Chief Minister for life?
The ACT election has come and gone, and surprise, surprise – Andrew Barr and Labor have won yet again. After 23 years of uninterrupted power, it’s time to ask ourselves: why bother with the charade of elections at all? Wouldn’t it be simpler to declare Barr the Chief Minister for life and save the taxpayers some money? Labor and the Greens have long mastered the art of winning in Canberra, a city where public servants and bureaucrats thrive under their policies.
Common ground for the common good
As Australia approaches its next federal election, a bipartisan agreement between Labor and the Coalition is essential to ensure political stability, economic growth, and the safeguarding of Australia’s national interest. Historically, despite mutual antipathy, these two major parties have worked together in times of national crisis, such as when the Hawke Labor government liberalised both trade and the financial markets leading to a long period of strong economic growth.
The cult of the Greens: when friendship collides with ideology
I was recently cancelled by a long-term friend for having the temerity to support the State of Israel. The friend, let’s call him Bob, has relatively recently become a member of the Greens and is active in door-knocking and campaigning. Bob, a retired academic in the humanities, cloaks his prejudices in academic garb, which unfortunately also mirrors the characteristics of a cult.
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