The picture the commentariat presents of Winston Peters is a misleading caricature. If we don’t try to understand the complexity of the man, we cannot understand what is going on in New Zealand politics. Brian Easton writes – Winston Peters has been active in New Zealand politics longer than any other current politician. He stood […]
BRIAN EASTON: Understanding Winston
BRIAN EASTON: Understanding Winston
20 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
10 Useful Tips to Avoid Blunders in Chess | How to Blunder Less
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Why Wind & Solar Are Wrecking Our Economic Prosperity & National Security
20 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Dilute, diffuse, intermittent and unreliable, wind and solar make no sense. They will never constitute meaningful power generation sources. They were only designed as subsidy generation sources. As governments pull the plug on subsidies, wind power outfits and turbine makers are pulling the plug on their projects and production. Siemens Energy is losing cash like […]
Why Wind & Solar Are Wrecking Our Economic Prosperity & National Security
The ‘March of Reform’ and the changing backgrounds of 19th century MPs
20 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Continuing our series reflecting on the recent ‘Politics before Democracy’ conference, our assistant editor Dr Kathryn Rix looks at the impact of the 1832 Reform Act on the personnel of the House of Commons. In March 1833, two months after Parliament assembled following the first election held under the terms of the 1832 Reform Act, the cartoonist ‘H.B.’ […]
The ‘March of Reform’ and the changing backgrounds of 19th century MPs
Cooperation and the Co-operative Party
20 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: British history, British politics
The Co-operative Party was founded in 1917, volunteer interviewer Peter Reilly reflects on his recent oral history interview with David Lepper, a former ‘Labour Coop’ MP and what it meant to be a member of the Co-operative Party. Recent interviews I have conducted for the History of Parliament Trust Oral History Project remind us that […]
Cooperation and the Co-operative Party
Spring Break: Christie’s Prediction of a Trump Conviction by Spring Just Hit a Snag
20 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Below is a longer version of my column in the New York Post on the leaking of the interviews of former counsel to Donald Trump. The interviews could magnify the difficulties for both Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Counsel Jack Smith in their respective prosecutions. These case still represent a serious threat […]
Spring Break: Christie’s Prediction of a Trump Conviction by Spring Just Hit a Snag
Steven Pinker on free markets
19 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment
November 17, 1516: Birth of Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Part I.
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in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: British history
Mary I (February 18, 1516 – November 17, 1558), also known as “Bloody Mary” by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Felipe II of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous […]
November 17, 1516: Birth of Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Part I.
How Socialist is Sweden?
19 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, labour economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Sweden
During our Capitalism versus Socialism debate, Scott Sehon argued that Scandinavia really is quite socialist. Since I’m not on expect on Scandinavia, I asked Johan Norberg, author of the short book The Mirage of Swedish Socialism, as well as the recent The Capitalist Manifesto, to weigh in. Norberg kindly agreed. With great interest I have…
How Socialist is Sweden?
HSR: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
19 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
The Mineta Institute — named after a San Jose congressman who was Secretary of Transportation in 2001 through 2006 — has a new report claiming that high-speed rail will produce huge economic and environmental benefits. Rather than being based on any careful analyses, it basically repeats old claims that are … Continue reading →
HSR: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
Diesel-Driven: Electric Car Charging Stations Powered by Giant Banks of Diesel Generators
18 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics
While wind and solar advocates reckon we’ll all soon be driving electric vehicles charged up using sunshine and breezes, it’s ‘dirty’ old diesel that’s doing all the hard work. In Australia, those seemingly virtuous souls with EVs are really being propelled by coal, because 85% of the electricity passing through its Eastern grid comes from […]
Diesel-Driven: Electric Car Charging Stations Powered by Giant Banks of Diesel Generators
Hirsi Ali gets criticism of her newfound Christianity; responds
18 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, liberalism Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Freedom of religion, The Great Enrichment
Just recently Ayaan Hirsi Ali announced, after years of professing atheism (and rejecting her earlier Muslim faith(, that she’d become a Christian. This was announced in an article in Unherd, but she also discussed it briefly on a video, both of which I posted. Although she wasn’t explicit about what exactly she believed about Christianity, it’s […]
Hirsi Ali gets criticism of her newfound Christianity; responds
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