On 7 May, there will be elections in Scotland, Wales and much of England. Up will be: The latest poll projections have Labour losing around 1,700 of their 2,200 councillors with the gains being Reform +1,450, Greens +900, Lib Dems +330. Losing 80% of your seats is terrible. In the Welsh Senedd, Labour have 30…
The UK elections – how bad will Labour do
The UK elections – how bad will Labour do
03 May 2026 Leave a comment
in politics, Public Choice Tags: British politics
Confusing BBC portrayal of Hizballah and the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire
02 May 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Israel, Lebanon, media bias, Middle-East politics, war against terror
Visitors to the BBC News website during the five days between April 13th and April 17th could have been forgiven for being rather confused… The post Confusing BBC portrayal of Hizballah and the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire appeared first on CAMERA UK.
Confusing BBC portrayal of Hizballah and the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire
The Reporting of Hitler’s Death
01 May 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, World War II
On 29 April 1945, Hitler completed his will and last political testament and married his longtime mistress, Eva Braun. He also received the news that Benito Mussolini met his death in Italy. Mussolini’s corpse, along with that of his mistress, Clara Petacci, had been smashed in fury by a mob and hung upside down outside […]
The Reporting of Hitler’s Death
Operations Manna and Chowhound
01 May 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Netherlands, World War II ll
During the winter of 1944/45 approximately 20,000 citizens died in the so-called Hunger Winter, the Dutch famine. A German blockade cut off food and fuel shipments from farm towns. Some 4.5 million were affected and survived thanks to soup kitchens. As the war was wrapping up in April of 1945, in an effort to alleviate […]
Operations Manna and Chowhound
African and Muslim roles in the African slave trade
01 May 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: economics of slavery
The False Simplicity of Blaming “the West” Alone for the African Slave Trade On March 25, 2026, the UN General Assembly adopted a controversial resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the “gravest crime against humanity,” championed by Ghana on behalf of the African Union. The resolution, passed with 123 votes […]
African and Muslim roles in the African slave trade
Medsafe Delenda Est
01 May 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: drug lags
Excellent news out of the UK. Abrysvo, a vaccine for RSV administered to pregnant women, reduces infant hospitalisation by 80%. From the BBC:A vaccine during pregnancy which protects newborns against nasty chest infections is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say.A virus, called RSV, affects many babies in the first…
Medsafe Delenda Est
This may come as no surprise
30 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: black markets
RNZ reports:An RNZ investigation into the tobacco blackmarket found packs of cigarettes and loose tobacco being sold brazenly over the counter at heavily discounted prices.By law, cigarettes have to include pictures and health warnings covering at least 75-percent of the front of the packs. But the cigarettes being sold on the blackmarket are a throw…
This may come as no surprise
Pandemics
30 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Economics is Counter-Emotional, Not Counter-Intuitive
30 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of education, economics of information, history of economic thought, Public Choice
A few months ago, a high school econ student asked me to zoom with his class. I’m working against a tight deadline for Blockade, so I was inclined to decline. But the student’s list of questions was so ambitious that I decided to make the time. See for yourself:Here is the plan:- 5 minutes -WELCOME…
Economics is Counter-Emotional, Not Counter-Intuitive
How Reform Happens
30 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, Public Choice
What determines whether and how regulations are reformed? We use a newly constructed data set of 3,590 successful and failed regulatory reforms in 189 countries, between 2005 and 2022, to address this question. We document that regulations have become more business friendly in some regulatory domains but not others. We also show that regulations are…
How Reform Happens
Dachau Liberated
29 Apr 2026 1 Comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
Dachau was the first concentration camp built by the Nazis. It opened on 22 March 1933. Twelve years, one month and one week later, the US Forces liberated the camp. The troops were horrified by what they saw. Below are just some testimonies. A letter by Sgt. Horace Evers Dearest Mom and Lou, Just received […]
Dachau Liberated
Shell Speech: Why the Second Comey Indictment is Likely to Fail
29 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech
Below is my column on Fox.com on the second indictment of former FBI director James Comey. Despite being one of…
Shell Speech: Why the Second Comey Indictment is Likely to Fail
Technological unemployment in Victorian Britain
29 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: creative destruction
We do not know whether technological unemployment swept across England in the wake of the British Industrial Revolution. In this paper, I propose an approach to quantify jobs lost to, and created by, creative destruction in the 19th century. Using over 170 million individual records from the full-count British census (1851–1911), I generate sub-industry “task”…
Technological unemployment in Victorian Britain
Unreported for nearly a year: media misconduct in Parliament
29 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - New Zealand Tags: media bias
Inside the Press Gallery: power, silence, and the accountability gap in New Zealand media On the evening of 13 May 2025, Finance Minister Nicola Willis hosted a pre-Budget drinks event in her parliamentary office. The event appears, in official records, as “EVENT: Press Gallery… Parliament… Invited Guests” at 6pm in her ministerial diary. It was intended to […]
Unreported for nearly a year: media misconduct in Parliament
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