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 […]
A must-listen interview for anyone clinging to the belief that there really is an ‘authentic’ Islam that is a religion of peace and tolerance. For far too long, the bien pensant, kumbayaist tendency in both Australia and Britain has swallowed uncritically the claim by Islam’s apologists that it is, in its authentic form, a religion […]
I have written before about the power of unpredictability to deter tyrants. With a second presidency of the notoriously capricious Trump in prospect, it’s perhaps worth expanding on those remarks. During Cold War 1, it was arguable that the predictability of American response to hostile activities was a key factor in deterrence. Since 1975, America’s […]
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