I just got home from the UK, where I had gone to attend the funeral of my oldest friend, Ben Battle. Many of my fellow mourners were kind enough to say how much they enjoyed the eulogy I gave, and to ask for a copy of the text. It is principally for their benefit that […]
This is the decade in which the conceits and vanity of the bien pensant elites stopped being merely silly, and became outright dangerous, so exorbitant has their wealth-destruction become. The flagship preoccupation of the chattering classes, climate catastrophism, still has plenty of life in it, having long ago ceased to be a scientifically-informed anxiety, and […]
Few landmarks in Australia have the cultural resonance that attaches to Bondi Beach. Its name connotes the best of Australian hedonism – a stretch of sand and ocean rollers at the eastern margin of Sydney that has long been its favourite playground. Even the steam tram that once connected it with the rest of Sydney […]
What we ought to be saying about Nett Zero Scarcely a day passes without an article in the centrist press about the growing evidence that the Nett Zero project is incompatible with the preservation of the living standards that westerners have come to expect. Yet too much of this journalism confines itself to reciting the […]
We already have CCS units – they’re called trees! The western world is committing cultural suicide in so many ways that it can be hard to choose which act of self-harm to focus one’s attention on. As in so many things, the UK is ahead of Australia in this headlong rush to oblivion, but in […]
Look, I know most Harrumpf readers need no convincing that Net Zero is a colossal waste of money and resources, but Harrumpf is a site dedicated to exposing, and opposing bad ideas, and they don’t come much more stupid, mendacious or immoral than climate catastrophism, and the belief that we can control the climate by […]
I may, in the past, have said and written things about Donald Trump that were open to misinterpretation as tokens of approval. It is certainly true that I have taken to task those who froth at the mouth in their eagerness to condemn him, blind to the shortcomings of his rivals, and unwilling, when faced […]
Greetings, Harrumpfers. You find me, notwithstanding the Season of Goodwill and all that, seething. An old friend, of whom one has not in recent years seen a great deal, has sent one one of those round-robin summaries of family activities that arrive at this time of the year, brimming with a confidence in their recipients’ […]
Much has been written about the farce taking place in Baku, A place literally built on the supply of fossil fuels for energy production, hosting the world’s longest-running campaign for transferring wealth from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries is indeed a risible spectacle. Sceptical comment tends to dwell on […]
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command One thing we were taught in Britain as children in the 50s and 60s has long puzzled me – the insistence that before the use of ether to produce general anaesthesia, nothing but alcohol was available to dull the pain of surgery. Yet the same people […]
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