False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

Hostages - sausages of course - to fortune can come in varying degrees of convincingness:

So, the people of Northern Portugal are not too keen on having a lithium mine outside their back door:

Adam Smith only mentions “invisible hand” the once in Wealth of Nations and it’s not about the joyousness of free markets or even capitalism.

It is true that China has a certain socialist direction from the top in its economic mix.

Britons have just 23 hours of ‘genuinely free’ time a week – so much for labour-saving technology - Elle Hunt

They call themselves socialists, but think and act very capitalistically. Real Marxists are probably easier to find in Europe and the USA than in Vietnam.

Sir John Cowperthwaite, when running Hong Kong, famously banned anyone collecting the GDP statistics on the grounds that some damn fool would only try to do something with them.

Some of the country’s biggest retailers have written to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, warning that the government’s plans to overhaul business rates risk turning UK high streets into “ghost towns”.

In George’s column about fisheries:

That idea that a centrally planned, centrally controlled, centrally paid for, National Health Service would end up as being part of the Road to Serfdom.

Cornwall should be made into an industrial hub to fuel net zero, government scientists have urged Ed Miliband.