The Gore film flayed for "Alarmist Untruths".

The Australian,12.10.2007,p.3.

Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’has been exposed by Britain’s top court as Alarmist,one-sided and littered with nine convenient untruths.

In what is a rare judical ruling on what children can see in the classroom,Justice Burton,of the Supreme Court,was at pains to point out that the “apocalyptic [...]

Amendment to ‘Do we owe the third world a living’.

Apologies for my typing error in the above article. I typed 25 academics when it should have been 125.

When you think about it it was not a bad error as I did not think there were as many ‘academics’in the world let alone Australia. Don’t tell my boss what I did I [...]

Public Intellectuals?

Scandinavians have a belief that the lower orders of society should accept in politics and in life,the advice of educated people (They have read Karl Marx) without question. Without discussion at all levels of society how can a state be called a democracy? Intellectuals in Anglo-Saxon societies such as America,England,Australia,Canada and [...]

The Empire falls,The decline and fall of the West compared to that of Rome.

(Vanity Fair,October. 2006)

The above article compares the fall of Rome as detailed in Edward Gibbon,The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,with that of present day Europe and America.

In general the comparisons are relevant. Western Civilization in Europe and then in America has dominated the planet for 3 centuries and [...]

Do we owe the Third World a living?

Some people say that Iraq and Afghanistan are not our problem,then neither is Darfur.

Toby Hall,CEO of Mission Australia asks us,(Sunday Mail,14.10.07,p.43) to accept tribesmen from Darfur and to make allowances for their behaviour which is anti-social. Why the interest in these foreigners? Our own lower classes are given such [...]

Globalisation,a Promised land for some.

For most of the poorly educated and certain tradesmen in the Western World. globalisation has been a disaster.

For others such as the wealthy,the educated and the adventurous,globalism is a great opportunity,but like all adventures there are costs.

An article in the Weekend Australian 13-14 October 2007,p.30 “Expats make their mark [...]