Why were sailors so unhealthy
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in defence economics, economic history, health economics
#globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens
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in environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias
David Seymour’s adjournment speech 2020
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 New Zealand election, economics of pandemics, regressive left
Campaign granted permission for judicial review of £27 billion UK roads programme
06 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
Once more the courts are asked to intervene in UK transport policy on the grounds of ‘climate change objectives’ and other supposed issues, while the roads get ever more overcrowded.
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Transport Action Network (TAN) has been granted permission for judicial review of the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps’ decision to go ahead with the £27 billion roads programme (Roads Investment Strategy 2 or RIS2), reports Ekklesia.
Mrs Justice Lieven gave the go ahead for the review, saying that TAN’s case that Mr Shapps had not properly considered the impact of the multi-billion pound roads-building scheme on climate change objectives, including the carbon budgets under the Climate Change Act 2008 and the Paris Agreement, was arguable.
The Judge also declared the case to be “significant” which means it will be fast-tracked and should be heard at the High Court by early November.
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A revolting pocket borough: Morpeth in the late eighteenth century
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In our latest Georgian Lords blog, in keeping with our general focus for the month on the county of Northumberland, Dr Charles Littleton considers the case of the pocket borough of Morpeth and its uneasy relations with the earls of Carlisle.
The Northumbrian borough of Morpeth had returned representatives to Parliament since 1553. From 1601 the Howards of Naworth were lords of the manor, and in 1661 Charles Howard was created earl of Carlisle. He and his descendants controlled Morpeth so thoroughly that in the mid-eighteenth century the selection of MPs was considered to be ‘totally in Lord Carlisle’. Morpeth would appear to be a textbook example of a ‘pocket borough’. However even this personal fiefdom needed careful management, and on occasion the townsmen could resist the earls’ domination.
The franchise lay in those admitted to the freedom of the borough. This provided the earls with a means to control…
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Hiroshima: After the Bomb
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: atomic bombings, World War II
NYTimes commentary offers up that hoary 1960 debate myth
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To say that prominent media myths, those dubious tall tales about the media and the exploits of journalists, are immune from debunking is to confirm a truism.
Shield him from debates?
Some media-centric tall tales are just too good to die away.
These include the heroic trope that two young, dogged reporters for the Washington Post brought down Richard Nixon’s corrupt presidency in the Watergate scandal. They include the notion that a pessimistic, on-air assessment by anchorman Walter Cronkite about the Vietnam War in 1968turned American public opinion against the conflict.
And they include the exaggerated narrative of the first presidential debate in 1960 between Nixon and John F. Kennedy, that the former “won” the debate among radio listeners but, because he perspired noticeably and looked wan, “lost” among television viewers.
The myth of viewer-listener disagreement was thoroughly and impressively demolished 33 years ago and yet it…
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Karl Marx Hated Society’s Poorest
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in history of economic thought, Marxist economics Tags: Karl Marx, regressive left
The Insane Engineering of the P-47 Thunderbolt
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
What is the scientific consensus on the cost of #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens @AOC @BernieSanders
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in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias
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