The Joy of Curmudgeonry

“I am very happy to affirm that I am not a giant expert on climate change: I know a bit, and I know that there’s not yet been a giant global...

“Staggering across the fringes of the [Copenhagen] summit are the people who will see their countries live or die on the basis of its delibe...

Edward Feser has touched on the matter of haughtiness in philosophy [1] and how it may overwhelm rational commitment and truthfulness, such...

“Copenhagen is poised to achieve a profound historical transformation: reversing the road we have travelled for 200 years.” [1] I regret t...

“Queenie understands the drabness of Britain without immigration and grabs her chance of excitement, defiant of the heart-breaking consequen...

Today the Lisbon Treaty came into force, and so, in a humble way, I should just like to mark this great occasion by swearing undying enmity...

“[Rajendra] Pachauri said the large number of contributors and rigorous peer review mechanism adopted by the IPCC meant that any bias would ...

As received and written down in the year 1850 by “Sauerteig”, aka Thomas Carlyle:— 1. The Universe, so far as sane conjecture can go, is a...

Apparently there has been much screeching by feminists in opposition to the establishment of so-called men’s societies at English universiti...

“We are no gods, but shortsighted men and must be content with finding out a little bit of truth in wading through a sea of errors,” wrote t...

“Central American nations will demand $US105 billion . . . from industrialised countries for damages caused by global warming, the region’s ...

“Is Society become wholly a bag of wind, then, ballasted by guineas?” Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets , No. V: May 1850: Stump-Orator...

“You cannot play fast and loose with England”, says Lord Hattersley, in a paean of new patriotism [1] , whereat Mr Laban Tall wonders whethe...

Now, my brethren in darkness, it is time to let a little of the light of reality into our dark existence, not so much as to put us to frigh...

Bruce G. Charlton, evolutionary psychiatrist, professor of theoretical medicine, and editor-in-chief of Medical Hypotheses , lays on a feast...

It is hoped under the impress of the mechanical philosophy that men will one day be able to look upon the world and explain all of its aspec...