Have you ever visited France? Or Italy? If so, it’s likely that you flew into Paris, or Rome.  But did you? Or did you fly to ‘Parrree’, with a suitably uvulated ‘r’? Or to ‘Roma’, with its ‘r’ impeccably rolled? And when, in France, you heard the locals talking about visiting ‘Londres’, did you correct […]

Apparently it’s going to happen in October. The Referendum, I mean, to determine whether the Australian constitution should be amended to provide something called ‘a Voice’ for the 800,000 or so Australians who are, or claim to be, of aboriginal descent. I’m firmly on the No side. The Yes case seems to me to imply […]

I’m on a Keto diet. She Who Must be Obeyed has decreed that my girth has grown excessive, and I’ve been on this protein- and fat-rich regime, denied carbs, for several weeks now. Given that I have perhaps not been the most compliant subject, still consuming a beer a day and occasionally breaking the rulers […]

As the confected Covid scare recedes into the rear-view mirror, the cleaning up operation moves into high gear, as the guilty men (and women) seek to remove from the record all trace of their hysterical folly. We’ve had the quiet rescinding of the approval of the Astra-Zeneca ‘vaccine’. That took place some months ago. Did […]

Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a Harrumpf post lamented the indiscriminate demonisation of all things Russian. My argument was that it was unfair to the large number of Russians who loathe what Putin has done to their country, and that, being unfair, it was likely to be counterproductive, so far as any hope […]

It has recently become fashionable for climate contrarians – or realists, as I prefer to be known, to abandon any attempt to dispute the underlying science of AGW, and instead point out to climate zealots the absurdities of their prescriptions for ‘mitigation’, or the futility of ‘decarbonising’ already low-emitting societies while China – whatever soothing […]

One by one, they fall. The verities of Covid, pronounced so intolerantly by the bien pensants in the early months of 2020, are dropping like nine-pins. We sceptics noted that response to Covid infection was highly idiosyncratic, meaning that significant, but unknown numbers of asymptomatic infections had occurred and were occurring, leaving no reliable denominator […]

The history of Covid 19 is a tale of experts who turned out to be ignorant, lording it over lay folk who believed that ‘Covid policy’ was a hysterical, eye-wateringly expensive overreaction that defied common sense. I was always sceptical of the claims of the MRNA vaccine makers that their product was ‘safe and effective’. […]

And what happens when the magic wears off? The title of this post is not meant to be rhetorical. Look, I haven’t actually watched any of the pabulum produced by the Sussexes under their Netflix deal. There are people who are paid to do that, and who therefore cannot complain about the nausea they experience […]

When Russia invaded Ukraine early this year, I fully expected Joe Biden, the man who, by his abandonment of Afghanistan, executed the most shameful scuttle in American history, to emulate the response of his predecessor Barak Obama, to Russia’s 2014 capture of Crimea – plenty of orotundly-phrased rhetoric, perhaps a bit of limp-wristed, largely cosmetic […]