Saturday Despite the in-your-face hysteria of the WuFlu fiasco, it is not the most important story of the day, just the most titillating for the media. The destruction caused by the lockdowns is testament to the dopiness of our politicians the world over. What has become forcefully clear over the last sixteen months is that democracy is unworkable once … [Read more...]
The Big R
Saturday The history of economics and war tells us that the world is in a bad place. Empires are in collision. It is 1914 – with nukes. The West’s softest and silliest ever generation, is about to get a real life lesson in Reality – the Big R. It will be an unrecognisable concept to most. Despite the giddy euphoria of the stock market, we have … [Read more...]
The Warming Herring
Monday Global Warming is the greatest ever Red Herring, but it has to be acknowledged that it is also the most successful. A whole generation of children have been indoctrinated with the belief that unless we destroy Western Civilization by removing the use of fossil fuels, then Western Civilization will end. It is a combination of Chicken Little writ large and the … [Read more...]
Wealth Inequality
Sunday Take away the ability to trade freely and what appears in its place is corruption. The more regulations, the more pervasive the corruption. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O’Rourke Today, the economies of the Western world are burdened with regulations sufficient to break the … [Read more...]