Friday, February 17, 2006

The West - address by Keith Windschuttle

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In li'l ol' NZ, no less, A thoughtful piece , and as usual, backed up by historical research. With my having just finished Simon ...
Thursday, February 09, 2006

Dem 'Toons

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Lots of heat and little light in our own benighted and multi-culti-infested media warrens. Antidotes hereby prescribed: Belmont Club has a ...
Friday, February 03, 2006

Great read for strategic minds

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In stark contrast to the woolly-headed claptrap encountered in most comments about grand strategy, this piece hits the spot quite nicely. ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Canadian election - Liberal values

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Bit scary : try replacing 'Paul Martin' with 'Helen Clark' and the shoe mostly still fits.....

Housing Hi-jinks

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Not pc has a good note about affordability and its inverse relationship to planning and land-use regulation. But when you look at the actu...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Laugh, damn near peed myself

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Green Speechwriting , over at Sir Humph's.

Some good stuff

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Culture Cult has some good new articles up. Eamon Duffy's seminal book on the English Reformation has been re-released with new resear...
Thursday, January 12, 2006

Cute phrases

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Fitzsimons lied, foliage died. Giving it the 'Fitzsimons Flick' Russia as ' Nigeria with permafrost ' (ht: TCS)
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Cronulla comments

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Mark Steyn does his usual pithy take on what's going on here. And a genuine Aussie sheila has her say as well. And Keith Windschuttl...
Monday, November 21, 2005

Firenze - Day 20

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We have allowed just this one day, as Venice is our primary goal for the second Italian week. The Uffizi gallery is first on the list, and ...

Firenze - Day 19

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The Intercity stops at each major station, and our compartment is occupied with four Italian women who gossip non-stop from Roma to Firenze....

Rome - last day (18)

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The Metro beckons, and day tickets are only 4 Euro. So it's off to the Vatican, Cipro stop. Where the Church's profit motive and t...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Rome sights - Day 17

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We are not about to tour sitting down today, so walk everywhere. Down to the Colosseum first, join a tour which is well worth the money, an...

Rome - Day 16

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The Easyjet flight has no hand baggage weight restriction, thank goodness. And is not very full, so we bag a window seat forard of the engi...

Bristol Airport - Day 16

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Trev runs us up to Bristol airport over the Mendip Hills - not that you'd actually spot them as such. We vsee them from the air later, a...

Devon Coast - Day 15

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A family lunch at West Bay, just down from Bridport on the Devon coast. Jurassic fossil cliffs east and west of the town, and the restauran...

Somerset - Day 14

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Have to drop the renter back at Marksbury, just out of Bath, so we have a Bristol, Bath and Avon day. Trev takes us on from the Europcar dr...

Cornwall - Devon - Somerset, Day 13

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Up the A39 all the way up Cornwall, round the top of Devon, then cut across from Minehead to Taunton and on into deepest ZumerZet. A rainy,...

Harbours and Mines - Cornwall - Day 12

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We zip over the hill to Penzance, and immediately are drawn into the classic Cornish landscape: heathy hill with roofless engine house and ...
Thursday, November 10, 2005

Mugged in St Ives - Day 11

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Yes, a mugging. In deepest Cornwall. By a large seagull, of my almost-entire genuine award-winning Cornish pasty. We had a day mooching r...