Utopia, you are standing in it!

The following is a message from lawyer Stephen Franks on behalf of the Free Speech Union. I don’t like to interrupt first thing Monday morning, but we’ve just become aware of a case where we think immediate and overwhelming attention could help turn the tide. It involves someone I’ve long followed on Twitter with the…

STEPHEN FRANKS: Press seek to publicly shame doctor. We must push back.

By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler       British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced this week that the UK will push to unlock global finance and help developing countries invest to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to Cleverly, the spotlight will be on improving the global financial system, including making it easier […]

James Cleverly Needs $4 Trillion a Year For His Sustainable Development Goals!

By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler       British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced this week that the UK will push to unlock global finance and help developing countries invest to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to Cleverly, the spotlight will be on improving the global financial system, including making it easier […]

James Cleverly Needs $4 Trillion a Year For His Sustainable Development Goals!

Two perceptive op eds by Dr. Judith Curry provides thinking pertinent to UK Sunak’s reconsideration of climate policies.  Her articles in December and January for Sky News Australia was The faux urgency of the climate crisis is giving us no time or space to build a secure energy future. and Rapid technological innovation – not […]

Notes for Sunak: Energy Transition Risk Vs. Climate Change Risk

Many nations face a slow-motion fiscal crisis because of demographics. To be more specific, politicians last century created welfare states and social-insurance systems that take money from workers in order to provide pensions and health care to old people. Those decisions were misguided (compared to market-based approaches), but the math sort of worked. After all, […]

Demographic Doom and the Welfare State

Despite the Act of Settlement of 1701, which placed the succession to the throne on Princess-Electress Sofie of Hanover, there were those in England and France who whished that Prince James would succeed Queen Anne if he would convert to the Protestant faith. Between August and September 1710, Queen Anne appointed a new Tory administration […]

September 16, 1701: Prince James, the Prince of Wales claims the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland. Part II.

While there will not be another quarterly release of benefit numbers prior to the election, limited weekly reporting continues and is showing an alarming trend. Because there is a seasonal component to benefit number fluctuations it is crucial to compare like with like. In the ten week period to September 15, 2023 the number of…

LINDSAY MITCHELL: Alarming trend in benefit numbers

In torts, we discuss the “no duty to rescue” doctrine in torts. Under the common law, you are not legally required to assist a person in peril if you had no responsibility for their injury. A recent incident in the Grand Canyon National Park raised some of the underlying issues that we debate in our […]

Backpackers Abandon Seriously Injured Friend in Grand Canyon After Calling Sheriff

Published earlier this year, Richard Norton Smith’s long-anticipated biography of Gerald Ford is a valuable addition to the small collection of serious biographies of the 38th president. Smith is a biographer and historian who has also served as director of the presidential libraries for presidents Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan and Ford.  With 710 pages of text […]

Review of “An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford” by Richard Norton Smith

Crony capitalism is mostly done undercover; only rarely does its insidious work bubble to be the surface. The wind industry isn’t the only business where cash for favours is the order of the day. But the wind industry is alone in its moralising, ‘shut up, we’re saving the world’ mantra. The narrative upon which it […]

Wind Industry’s Rotten Tale: A Story of Bribes and Underhand Dealings

If you want to see what the government of New Zealand is up to with respect to science education, you can’t do better than listening to this video/slideshow by two exponents of the “we-need-two-knowledge-systems” view. I’ve gotten a lot of scary stuff from Kiwi educators in the last couple of weeks, but this one site…

A good summary of the mess that is science education in New Zealand

If you want to see what the government of New Zealand is up to with respect to science education, you can’t do better than listening to this video/slideshow by two exponents of the “we-need-two-knowledge-systems” view. I’ve gotten a lot of scary stuff from Kiwi educators in the last couple of weeks, but this one site…

A good summary of the mess that is science education in New Zealand

One of the foundations of the modern British constitution is the idea that the Sovereign only acts on ministerial advice. However, the relationship between the Monarch and their Ministers is largely shielded from public view, making it difficult to understand how it works in practice.[1] But the material that has trickled into the public domain […]

The Language Of Ministerial Submissions

There was a knockout winner of the Leaders’ debate. Check for yourself. Recall how they looked. If you cannot remember or missed it, the debate is on TVNZ’s website. Turn off the sound and ask; “which one looks like a Prime Minister?” Political scientists have done this experiment repeatedly. Asked people who do not know…

RICHARD PREBBLE: Who won the Leaders’ debate?