The long-awaited Mark Steyn ‘trial’ in Canada begins. Can a Human Rights Tribunal seemingly operating in an untransparent if not dishonest way suppress free speech in Canada, primarily because someone does not like what has been said? Vast (pro-Steyn) Background here. The live-bogging begins.
This noisy Independent piece argues for a huge increase in roof-top solar panels on British homes. Its arguments are based on the success of an earlier government scheme to bribe people to instal solar panels: "When first launched two years ago, the grants – which, for example offered up to […]
For anyone following US politics or indeed anyone who is not dead, this is a must-view item. She seems … vexed.
A nice observation from Tim Worstall this morning on why speculators send us all the right signals. Money is great for buying much-needed gardening equipment and the like. But more importantly it is the ultimate information system. Reflecting the accumulated choices of trillions of daily free transactions, money tells you everything […]
Back from New York. Getting there via JFK airport was an experience. On the plane I filled in the usual visitor entry forms plus customs form using the only pen I had with me, namely a red-ink Pilot Vball. When we reached the immigration officer my heart sank. He had […]
Some things just need to be pointed out for the edification of us non-Americans. Thus yesterday Syracuse beat John Hopkins 13-10 in the NCAA men’s lacrosse final. So what? Only that a crowd of 49,000 people watched the match. Blimey. HT: Power Line
Back in New York, so re-reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. The blurb on the back of my Harper Collins edition describes the book as being all about ‘ambition, power, gold and love’. Not really. Did they read it? This is the best book about Freedom and Communism, a rambling […]
I am off to New York for a few days. When and why do places like New York decay and then recover? Radical thinking plays a part in it: almost all modern revolutions, from the Jacobins to the Nazis and the Communists, have ended with the streets running with blood, […]
… are, it turns out, easily indentifiable. And Guido identifies them. I went to a ‘direct grant’ school myself (St Albans School). Does that qualify me to write for a Left-inclined national newspaper?
South Africa’s wave of violence against foreigners is vile and depressing. Not so much because ‘black’ South Africans should love and respect foreigners from elsewhere in Africa. Why should they? But the fact that South Africa’s uniquely horrible live burnings are back. Remember necklacing? The practice of placing a petrol-filled […]
