We’re Your Firing Squad | Blackadder Goes Forth | BBC Comedy Greats
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in television, TV shows
unpleasant arithmetic hyperinflation
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic history, financial economics, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics
The six ways renewables increase electricity bills
28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood London, 28 September – A new paper from the Net Zero Watch demonstrates conclusively renewables increase electricity bills — indeed, it is almost impossible that adding a new windfarm to the grid would ever reduce consumer prices. The author of the paper, Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford, outlines a […]
The six ways renewables increase electricity bills
Public need to be able to scrutinise the true costs on net-zero energy policy–Euan Mearns
28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
By Paul Homewood Euan Mearns sent me this letter he has had published in his local newspaper: He tells me there is a serious error in the print version, but the correct version is below:
Public need to be able to scrutinise the true costs on net-zero energy policy–Euan Mearns
More mishigas: Two anthropology societies cancel an accepted symposium on sex and gender because it would “harm” their members
28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
I’m probably late to the party, but the latest gossip about the Authoritarian Left involves the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) deciding to deplatform an entire symposium on sex and gender in anthropology—all because of the claim that it could cause mental “harm”to some people. Thyere are three letters involved, […]
More mishigas: Two anthropology societies cancel an accepted symposium on sex and gender because it would “harm” their members
Initial Reactions to the Amazon Antitrust Case
28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, law and economics Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general have sued Amazon.com, as the FTC press release says, “alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power.” The FTC complaint filed with the US District Court for…
Initial Reactions to the Amazon Antitrust Case
Texans Left Scrambling For Power As Wind Turbines Take Another Summer Vacation
28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Texas is littered with solar panels and wind turbines, but don’t expect them to deliver power as and when you need it. As happens most years, wind turbines across Texas have been on their annual summer vacation, for weeks now. In their absence, solar is able to pitch in for a while, but sunset has […]
Texans Left Scrambling For Power As Wind Turbines Take Another Summer Vacation
When is an Emperor not an Emperor?: Caesar Augustus. Part II.
28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Modern historians conventionally regard Augustus as the first emperor, whereas Julius Caesar is considered the last dictator of the Roman Republic, a view having its origins in the Roman writers Plutarch, Tacitus, and Cassius Dio. Conversely, the majority of Roman writers, including Josephus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius and Appian, as well as most of the […]
When is an Emperor not an Emperor?: Caesar Augustus. Part II.
John Cochrane — Is It Getting Hot in Here?
28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment
Popper again
28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in Karl Popper, liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Anthony Rota Resigns in Disgrace as Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
27 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
A Politician’s Propensity toward Platitude Destroys His Career After Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, addressed a joint sitting of the House of Commons and Senate on Thursday, 21 September 2023, Anthony Rota, the Speaker of the House of Commons, recognised an elderly man in the galleries: “We have here in the chamber today a […]
Anthony Rota Resigns in Disgrace as Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
Frank Dikotter – The Cultural Revolution – 1962-76
27 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, Marxist economics Tags: China
Trump Pledges to Investigate Comcast for “Country Threatening Treason”
27 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
In a chilling message, former President Trump pledged to investigate Comcast if he is elected in 2024. Trump insisted that the parent company for NBC and MSNBC “will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things, and events.” The stated grounds are “country threatening treason.” The pledge is not simply […]
Trump Pledges to Investigate Comcast for “Country Threatening Treason”
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