The Melbourne ‘climate emergency’
Of course, I’d be worried about sudden or adverse changes in the climate, too… if there were anything to worry about. But I can’t for the life of me (or yo...
Category: Policy
Why no outrage?
The excellent @samirvama asked me, today, why Australians seem not to have reacted with outrage to their government’s reported abuses of personal liber...
No warming trend in Victoria (AU)
The avowed determination of the Biden Administration to make its concerns about global warming a priority for government regulation and spendi...
Not all about the WTO
Years ago, in the early 2000’s, the WTO hired me to write several books about the Organisation and the treaties. I still sometimes get a request, althoug...
What happened to the Moon?
July 20, 1969… Fifty years! A lifetime ago, the Moon landing seemed like a new horizon. But it wasn’t. On the twentieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon...
Time to reassess eugenics?
Eugenics is an ancient idea with a terrible modern reputation. Is that reputation now irrrelevant? [A discussion paper for a talk I gave in 2015: re...
Free trade (not agreements) will make Britain great
To judge from most of the “progressive” press and my Twitter feed, there is a great deal of ruin in Brexit. I hear that Britain is so integrated into the E...