Greg Lindsay

Senior Fellow and Founder
The Centre for Independent Studies

[Greg Lindsay @greglindsay1]

@HeadWarriorTWM Absolutely

[Greg Lindsay @greglindsay1]

@farman4x 16

[Morgan Barrett @MorganBarrettX]

Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen

Just one example (bear with me):

Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.

The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows

But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered

Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle

There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).

If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.

Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).

Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed

So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef

Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers

[Greg Lindsay @greglindsay1]

@strangerous10 Who?

[Parnell Palme McGuinness @parnellpalme]

Neo-feudalism.

[christopher joye @cjoye]

What current generations forget is that Australia had *zero* Capital Gains Tax from its founding through to September 1985 - the first-ever CGT was introduced by Labor under Hawke/Keating… New Zealand still has zero CGT. Socialists are trying to tax the private sector to transfer this income to the public sector to fund its out-of-control growth

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

Dame Helen Mirren gets called an “evil Zionist b****” by a pro-Palestine thug in the streets of London.

This is absolutely appalling.

We are now at a point where public figures can be screamed at and abused simply for being perceived as being sympathetic to the world’s only Jewish state or unwilling to conform to an ideological litmus test.

This is not activism. It is intimidation, mob behaviour and extremism masquerading as moral virtue.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

You need to grow up in Iran. Go to school under Islamic law, experienced get beaten up for showing your hair, go to prison for speaking up receiving lashes where fear is part of your daily education, then you will understand my feelings in front of this Mosque in Hamburg.

This Blue Mosque and more the 50 more across Germany were built by the regime of Iran under the protection of your laws, your tolerance, your tax system, and your religious freedom.

And what did Europe get in return? A new generation taught that the West is evil while Hamas, Hezbollah, and the IRGC are somehow “resistance.”

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

In 1980, we had one regulator for every 11,000 people working in financial services.

Today, it's closer to one regulator for every *75* people.

Bureaucrats always create more rules and always work to expand their powers. The idea that we can "regulate for growth" is ludicrous.

[Parnell Palme McGuinness @parnellpalme]

This is an excellent column from Claire. Everyone - unfortunately especially those who don’t subscribe to the Oz - should read it.

[Roger Montgomery @rjmontgomery]

Older Australians didn’t get there because they had it easy. They endured recessions, rate shocks, market crashes, the GFC and COVID, while saving and investing for decades so they wouldn’t be a burden on the public system.

#retirement #investing #wealthcreation #australia #montinvest

[Anthony Dillon @Anthonywodillon]

"The reason I tried as an MP to maximise my time in remote Australia, and PM to spend at least a week a year in remote Australia, is because life on the ground often fails to conform to the Dark Emu romance of deeply spiritual people" (Tony Abbott)
https://t.co/cJao7IVIXO

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🔥 One Of The Greatest, Most Brutally Honest Scenes In TV History.

In Landman, Billy Bob Thornton’s character Tommy Norris drops a masterclass monologue that completely obliterates the delusional “green energy” fantasy in under two minutes.

Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris is out in the Texas oil patch, looking at those massive 400-foot wind turbines supposedly “powering a clean future”… while they’re actually running remote oil wells because there’s no grid electricity out there.

She asks, “They use clean energy to power the oil wells?”

Tommy fires back: “They use alternative energy. There’s nothing clean about this.”

He breaks down the “clean” reality: These things sit on giant concrete foundations poured with diesel, made from steel cooked in fossil fuel furnaces, hauled and cranked up by fuel-guzzling trucks and cranes, then slathered in petroleum lubricants just to spin for their measly 20-year life.

Tommy doesn’t stop there. Fossil fuels aren’t some dirty secret, they’re the lifeblood of everything modern. The roads you drive, the tires on your EV, the plastic in your phone, your clothes, your fridge, your medicine, your makeup and lipstick… you name it.

Pretending we can wave a magic wand and “transition” away from oil overnight? That’s the real delusion sold by folks who’ve never gotten their hands dirty in the real world.

Taylor Sheridan and Billy Bob delivered one of the most honest, unapologetic scenes on TV in years. No preaching, just straight facts from the patch.

Watch the clip. None of this is “green” or “clean”. Not the turbines, not the transition, not the fantasy.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I agree with Javier Milei, who is a real libertarian. He held up Hoppe as a guide until he realized Hoppe is a demented ideologue who is completely disconnected from reality. Hoppe has a lot to do with why that strain of American Libertarians now are so ridiculous.

[Greg Lindsay @greglindsay1]

From the wise Javier Milei.

“I have nothing against artists. I had a rock band myself. My problem is that if you need a government subsidy to make art, you’re no longer an artist, you’re a public employee.”

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

That's a great line. I've been saying for years " the thing about engineers is that either the bridge falls down or it doesn't" but this is much pithier.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 In the second half of the eighteenth century, something happened in Scotland.

A country of one and a half million people.

Produced ideas that changed the entire world.

In one generation.

Adam Smith. He wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776. He invented economics.

David Hume. He asked the question nobody had dared ask. How do we actually know anything? His answer changed philosophy forever.

James Watt. Walking across Glasgow Green, the idea came to him. A separate condenser. It made the steam engine practical. And started the Industrial Revolution.

Joseph Black. He discovered latent heat. The principle that made refrigeration, steam power and thermodynamics possible.

James Hutton. He looked at the rocks at Siccar Point. And understood the earth was unimaginably old. He invented geology.

These men knew each other. They argued in the same taverns. Walked the same streets.

In one generation, one small country invented economics, philosophy, geology, thermodynamics and the steam engine.

The modern world runs on what they built. 🇬🇧

This is your history.

Help us keep it alive. 👇

Be Part Of Us 👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 🙏

Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

[Australian Jewish Association @AustralianJA]

The University of Sydney accepted two Jewish exchange students from Israel.

This is the greeting they faced.

When did this hatred become normalised in Australia?
Do you recognise Australia anymore?

[Anthony Dillon @Anthonywodillon]

My father had a stellar career, but for him, family was always his highest priority.

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

One of the best interviews @reason has ever run was @RonaldBailey's with Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. https://t.co/rkP1lbLhiC