Utopia, you are standing in it!

In the 18th century, tea was a popular drink in America. Yet the East India Company struggled to sell their produce which prompted the British government to pass the Tea Duty Act. Dr Robin Eagles, editor of the Lords 1660-1832 project, explores the less than enthusiastic response in America… 250 years ago, tea was very […]

‘the genuine foundation of our evils’: the Tea Act and Boston Tea Party 250 years on

Before becoming Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni was one of the most strident voices on migration in the European Union. As an opposition politician, she warned darkly of efforts to substitute native Italians with ethnic minorities and promised to put in place a naval blockade to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean. During her time in office, she has taken […]

Italy fact of the day

A day or two ago, I read an attempt by a Minister in the present Labour Government to justify “co-governance”, a word now used to mean governance where Maori New Zealanders share, on a 50/50 basis (sometimes with a veto), the governance of public services or natural resources with those without Maori ancestors. The Minister…

DON BRASH: A PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY CO-GOVERNANCE

Believers in the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory often talk about “trends”; increases in atmospheric and ocean temperatures, plus hurricanes and other storms – almost anything in fact, as long as it can be tied to AGW and is getting worse. The graph above doesn’t show anything that we haven’t known for at least twenty […]

Fitting up? No! Stitching up!

Below is my column in The Messenger on the early struggle of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to preserve her strategy of holding a mass 19-person trial over the 2020 election case involving former president Donald Trump. Not only are defendants scattering, but some are seeking to go to federal court where the trial […]

Fani Willis Fights for a Mass Trial As the Georgia Defendants Scatter

National announced its tax and spending plans this morning. You can read the full 29 page document. In the way of all parties and bureaucratic agencies these days, everything gets quoted as a four year figure: $14.7 billion sounds like a lot but it about $3.7 billion a year, which is about 0.8 per cent […]

National’s tax and spending plan

[Reminder: I’m running my first Ask Me Anything for paid subscribers tomorrow at 4 PM ET. With all new AV equipment. Upgrade if you want to participate.]Back in 2015, I found myself deeply dissatisfied with all of the other theories of left and right. Survive/thrive theory is especially overrated. So I modestly proposed my own:…

My Simplistic Theory of Left and Right: The Talk

New Zealand’s Population Conference is on in Auckland this week, so population issues have been on my mind. In the past, I’ve written about population decline in Japan. Things have escalated since that earlier post, as the Guardian reported last month:Every one of Japan’s 47 prefectures posted a population drop in 2022, while the total number…

Japan’s population decline is both a crisis and an opportunity

Pretty simple actually for the planet actually, as the following graph shows: 8,500 coal plants need to stop burning coal.We stop driving 1.4 billion cars.Planes stop flying 100,000 times a day.Stop eating tens of billions of animals per year.Stop shipping stuff. Yeah. That’ll happen. Incidentally, as a sort of follow-up to the previous post on […]

Hitting Net Zero

Germany has been overrun with 30,000 giant industrial wind turbines and millions of solar panels. Its climate cult reckons that the wholesale environmental destruction wreaked so far is all about saving the planet. It’s an argument that holds all the logic of amputating an entire leg to prevent a septic toe from doing any further damage […]

How 30,000 Industrial Wind Turbines Have Wrecked Germany’s Environment

Below is an expanded version of my Hill column on the Georgia call at the center of the recent indictment and the attack in the Washington Post by columnist Philip Bump, someone I have repeatedly criticized in the past for false and misleading stories. The column attacked me for suggesting that the Georgia call was […]

Yes, Trump was Seeking Another Recount or Investigation in Georgia: A Response to the Washington Post

Mitchell List and Kurt Schuler serve as interlocutors in “An Interview with James D. Gwartney on His Life and Work in Economics” (August 2023 (Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise, SAE #238, August 2023). The interview offers an in-depth overview of his pathway to and within economics.…

Interview with James Gwartney: Personal Choices and Public Choice

Below is my column in The Messenger on the expanding evidence in the Biden corruption scandal and the need for Congress to take commensurate action to investigate the matter. After this column ran, Fox’s Brian Kilmeade conducted an interview with Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. What was striking about the interview is not just the […]

Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden

From Alice Evans: Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan are closing gender gaps in pay, seniority and parliamentary representation. Japan and South Korea, meanwhile, have the largest gender pay gaps in the OECD. Management remains 85% male. Female graduates are treated like secretaries, expected to pour the tea and run errands. In Japan, a female graduate earns the same as a man […]

Why are Gender Pay Gaps so Large in Japan and South Korea?

In 2017, Denmark took a historic step in favor of free speech by rescinding its blasphemy law after 334 years. For those of us in the free speech community, it was an important moment in Europe where free speech is being rapidly reduced. Now, however, the liberal government is moving to reinstate the blasphemy crime…

Denmark Restores Blasphemy Prosecutions