Utopia, you are standing in it!

Below is my column in the New York Post on the Associated Press guideline for reporters to avoid calling Hamas a terrorist organization. Voice of America and other media outlets have made the same decision. This is not about supporting the Palestinian cause. It is about correctly describing a group that commits terrorist attacks as…

Yes, Hamas is Legally, Morally, and Factually a Terrorist Organization

The Peace of Westphalia is the collective name for two peace treaties signed on October 24, 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire, closing a calamitous period of European history. Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, the kingdoms of […]

October 24, 1648: The Peace of Westphalia

This recent post by Steve Williamson explains, far better than I did, why no more conventional stimulus is needed in the US.  It’s an argument that carries over fairly neatly to the UK.  And the sort of analysis that confronts head on calls for the authorities to pump up demand by the likes of Paul […]

Steve Williamson, the recession, and New Keynesian economics

Below is my column in the Daily Beast on the call from Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to expel members of the Squad from Congress. Five members recently made public comments against Israel at rallies in Washington:  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Cori Bush of Missouri.  Similar to calls from Democrats to disqualify […]

No, Congress Should Not Expel the Squad

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent discovery of a $200,000 payment to Joe Biden from his brother James Biden. The investigation into the massive influence peddling operation of the Bidens has revealed a consistent pattern of corruption. Frank, James, and Hunter all were in financial distress at different points with few […]

The President’s Taunt to Show Him the Money May Have Just Backfired

The image most of us had of former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis was a remarkably cheerful mugshot after her arrest in the RICO case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Ellis made a very different appearance today in state court as she pleaded guilty to intentionally interfering in the election process in the […]

Jenna Ellis Admits to Criminal False Statements in Ominous Plea for Trump

By Paul Homewood   If you tell a lie often enough, most people believe it!   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/13/climate-breakdown-majority-americans-experienced-record-hot-summer    Record heat?   Not according to NOAA:     The summer across the US as a whole was only the 15th hottest on mean temperatures, and 22nd for maximums, well below the 1930s. Only one State, Louisiana, […]

Record US Heat? More Guardian Lies!

TweetDavid Gillette and Warren Barge decry the FTC’s assault on Amazon. A slice: The FTC argues that Amazon’s market power inhibits the ability of competitors to enter the retail superstore marketplace. Such concerns are likely overblown. The striking similarities between Amazon and previous market giants deserve consideration. Let’s compare Amazon with Sears. Both companies started…

Some Links

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?

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

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

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

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