Tim Worstall takes a typical piece of headline-grabbing journalistic fluff … Within 10 years, the Gates Foundation is projected to have a GDP bigger than 70 per cent of the world’s nations. … and proceeds to work out what if anything it might mean. Not much, it turns out.
The BBC lovingly analyses Fidel Castro’s speech to the ‘National Assembly’ in Havana: … a hush descended … He smiled and waved to the crowd as he lapped up the warmth of their applause … a short but polished performance from the lively and healthy-looking Fidel Castro, his voice stronger […]
As the Hiroshima bombing anniversary passes again, Richard Fernadez asks a question: Try this quiz. Name the two greatest losses of civilian life in the Pacific war. Hint. In both cases the civilian casualties were greater than Hiroshima’s. In one case the event took place on American soil. Here’s the […]
Have you read this production of mine from 2008? An extract: Recently I was a Harvard-sponsored seminar at which issues of international ‘humanitarian intervention’ and the Right to Protect were discussed. I recalled seeing signs as one entered Harvard Square: Cambridge is a Domestic Violence-Free Zone. I said that if you […]
Ever wondered why so much human activity is a bit … odd? Now we know.
A thoughtful reader writes: There is one issue that occasionally troubles me. It is quite obvious in politics and senior positions elsewhere, that leaders cannot have a grasp of everything. Thus they must trust to their judgement on whom to believe on particular issues. This is particularly important […]
Part of the lonely life of the long-distance blogger is the furious battle waged behind the scenes to stop idiotic spam overwhelming the website’s comment area. In my case the website uses the Intense Debate comments facility. I receive an e-mail notification that a new comment has been posted, whereupon […]
Over at Business and Politics is my latest piece, on the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. It looks in a roundabout way at issues of information flow, risk management and ‘corporate culture’: Perhaps our hard-pressed rig operator makes the mistake of fact, misinterpreting the information being pushed to […]
On this site I have warned readers about the pernicious impact of the EU’s several attempts to limit working hours by law, especially in the UK National Health Service. See eg here. And here. My best friend happens to be an NHS consultant. He has warned me for years about […]
This morning I appeared on LBC‘s Nick Ferrari Breakfast radio programme. I was invited to join Mehdi Hasan (New Statesman) to talk about the forthcoming visit to the UK of Pakistan’s President Zardari. Mehdi led off, unexpectedly (for me!) praising David Cameron for speaking out about the fact that elements in Pakistan […]
