On Friday, Tesla’s board of directors rolled out a pay package proposal for CEO Elon Musk that could, if he plays his cars* right, turn the billionaire into the world’s first trillionaire.

Many people receiving state benefits prefer to think of them as coming from ‘the universe,’ or some impersonal source rather than from taxpayers’ contributions.

Or, to be more boringly accurate, this report does not show that the US subsidises fossil fuels by $31 billion a year.

There is a case for suggesting that people seek to gain the maximum output for the lowest possible input.

When the environment around them changes then humans change their behaviour. You know, sorry and all that but it’s true:

Although the killjoys in the Department of Health and Social Care campaign against drinking and, indeed, everything else that we might enjoy (tobacco, sugar, fatty foods, etc.), there’s a strong case in favour of moderate wine drinking, based on what has been studied in nutrition, epidemiology, and cultural history.

Fracking has been in effect banned in England since 2019, with the last remaining well in Lancashire sealed this year, and the Labour government said it had no plans to reinstate the practice.

Many unfair critics of the present UK government say that it is leading us to ruin, and that things could not possibly be worse.

It is indeed true that some people do not have as much money as we’d like them to have in a country as rich as we are.

The Office for National Statistics is not providing the numbers that the planners require in order to be able to do that planning stuff.

Another little piece of evidence here. There is that claim over on the idiot left that not just neoliberalism but the whole of neoclassical economics is bunk because of the assumption of rationality among the people.

That Road to Serfdom idea was clearly wrong, eh?