Fischer Played 1.e4 and Beat the World’s No.2 Player in 10 Moves! 🔥
25 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in chess
What Caused Severe Floods In The 1950s, Sky News?
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
By Paul Homewood https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/10/22/sky-blame-babet-floods-on-climate-change/ Sky think that climate change is making floods worse. Maybe they might like to explain why flooding was so bad in the 1950s: A trawl through the Met Office monthly weather reports of the time finds these references to severe floods:
What Caused Severe Floods In The 1950s, Sky News?
Let’s talk about international law, Hamas and Israel
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Who is Natasha Hausdorff?After a law degree at Oxford University and an LL.M. specialising in public international law, Natasha clerked for the President of the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem, acquiring a particular insight into the Court’s application of international law. In 2018, as a Pegasus Scholar, Natasha was a Fellow at Columbia Law…
Let’s talk about international law, Hamas and Israel
Israel’s economic performance
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The grim events of the last couple of weeks, and a note from a reader last week about a short post I’d written several years ago comparing the economic performance of Israel and New Zealand, prompted me to take another look at the data. This was the chart from the earlier (2018) post As I […]
Israel’s economic performance
BRIAN EASTON: Claudia Goldin Wins The 2023 Nobel Economics Laureateship
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Brian Easton writes – A woman who was once chief executive of New Zealand’s biggest company said ‘It is true that a large percentage of the [women’s pay] gap is unexplained and that’s where the issue comes about; could it be bias even if that’s unconscious bias? Regardless of how we’ve got a gap … […]
BRIAN EASTON: Claudia Goldin Wins The 2023 Nobel Economics Laureateship
BEST CATCH EVER? Mark Taylor takes a crazy catch off Michael Bevan’s bow…
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in cricket
The Monday Club
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Continuing our series on factions, Alfie Steer, historian of modern and contemporary Britain, discusses one of the more controversial party factions, the Monday Club, and reflects on the limitations our oral history archive has encountered with such topics. On Monday, 3 February 1961, the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan addressed the South African parliament. Now remembered as the ‘Winds […]
The Monday Club
Stephen Fry Passionately Argues the Catholic Church is NOT a Force for G…
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
New Rule: Don’t Go to College | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
24 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in television, TV shows
The failure(s) of the New York Times
23 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
I’m afraid I’ll be posting more about the war today—but from various angles. The angle here is the failure of the New York Times in reporting the war, and especially the explosion at Al-Ahli Hospital. The Times, relying entirely on information from Hamas and its agencies, published an initial headline (see here and here), “Israel […]
The failure(s) of the New York Times
Britain ‘will need gas to avoid blackouts for decades’
23 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The story here refers to Britain’s ‘gas addiction’, but a renewables addiction will be far more problematic. At present gas power stations are being made ever more uneconomic by government net zero policies, but low wind days and hours are a given. Energy intensive carbon capture plans will only make matters worse. – – – […]
Britain ‘will need gas to avoid blackouts for decades’
Different Law Systems David D Friedman
23 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights
October 20, 1740: The War of the Austrian Succession
22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe. Its pretext was the right of Archduchess Maria Theresa to succeed her father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, as ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy. The Habsburg Monarchy, was a collection of states, or a personal union […]
October 20, 1740: The War of the Austrian Succession
Suicidal Tendencies: Wind & Solar Obsession Destroys Australia’s Economic Future
22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
A little over 20 years ago, Australia plugged in to the wind and solar transition with the Federal government’s Renewable Energy Target. As they say, ‘sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind’. Australia’s once reliable and affordable power supplies are long gone, replaced by heavily subsidised, intermittent and costly wind and solar, backed up by […]
Suicidal Tendencies: Wind & Solar Obsession Destroys Australia’s Economic Future
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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