Reader Norman Fraser quotes from this anti-Rand piece: In Rand’s novels the heroes pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. They made big profits in unfavorable economic climates. Try pulling yourself up by your shoelaces. It can’t be done. Its all story telling, with no basis in documented experience. And of […]
The more the government tries to change our behaviour to address ‘climate change’, the less the UK public incline to believe them. Funny, that. It of course all depends on the precise questions being asked. Does human activity have an impact on the planet? Of course. Is it easy to […]
When it comes down to it, what is a Blog? Not much more than personal musings, often with links to other websites which in one way or the other serve to reinforce the point one is trying to make. Some sites aim higher – to become places where intelligent people […]
Back from Berlin. Maybe I was in the wrong place on the night, but there seemed to be a remarkable number of road-blocks near the Brandenburg Gates to keep the public well back from the assembled global VIPs. By which I mean hundreds of yards away. A curious and depressingly […]
Here is the BBC giving some background on how and why the Berlin Wall came down. See what Mr Gorbachev says about the moment he heard what was happening: Mr Gorbachev chuckled as he remembered the rush to tell him what had happened. "They reported to me quite early in […]
A businesslike piece by Ilya Somin about the scale of Communist crimes – and why we must not forget them. It’s the sheer scale of the cruelty which we normally fail to grasp. Cuba? Great health care! Unless you’re murdered by the state: Since coming to power in 1959, Castro’s […]
David Aaronovitch (who like David Miliband comes from a family steeped in High Marxism) has a vigorous go at David Cameron this morning over the Jedwabne/Kaminski issue. There are already three David’s in this story. But what to do? Co zrobi
Reader Norman Fraser takes me to task for disagreeing with David Aaronovitch: No Charles this will just not do. You are attempting an act of heroic sophistry here and you are clearly not up to it. Quibbling about the words in one article is just not enough. There is too […]
Update: since I pointed out the egregious mistake on the FCO website as below, the error has been corrected. Glad to see that someone is reading this blog with an eagle eye. But I’ve left the original blunder quote up for the sake of accuracy. * * * * * The FCO […]
Here is a curious piece by LeftOutside trying to explain why "the overwhelming body of evidence in favour of Socialism" stops him being lured by libertarian ideas: When the tax revenue of South Koreans was directed towards the manufacture of Microwaves it was neither an area they specialised in nor […]
