Margaret Thatcher’s legacy
Margaret Thatcher is demonized by the Left for showing that free market policies work, which is more than can be said for Socialist ones.
The traditional pub does more than serve drinks
Some in the anti-alcohol and anti-tobacco lobby have their sights set on the traditional British pub.
Kingsley Amis was right - more means worse
Amis was referring specifically to universities but we can widen this a bit to government involvement in education itself:
The Twentieth Century’s most benign leaders
Most people would agree on the Twentieth Century’s most evil leaders with relative ease. The benign ones are harder to agree upon.
We’re so glad Mike Berners-Lee has caught up with us on climate change
People should confront their family members who read news from “nefarious” sources, suggests the environmentalist Mike Berners-Lee.
Ooooh, gosh, isn’t the Prime Minister being manly. And tough!
Despite the frisson we all feel for the straight-talking from the toolmaker’s son.
The retirement age should be 80
There are things that are logically true and yet somewhat difficult politically. This is just another of those reasons why we’re not wholly enamoured with politics as a way of running things.
To explain that Ukrainian minerals deal
Ukraine is believed to have vast mineral reserves, including 19 million tonnes of graphite and a third of Europe’s lithium, both of which are used in batteries, as well as large deposits of rare earth metals, used to produce electronics used in everything from iPhones to fighter jets.
After the Rose Garden 7 - Defence
Trump and his crew have shone a harsh light on European defence, showing it up as dysfunctional, all the way from boots on the ground through budgets to production capacity.
Perhaps Net Zero simply isn’t worth doing?
Are there benefits to heading off climate change?