Endless subsidies MARK HODGSON Six years ago Carbon Brief published on its website a guest post with the heading “The era of ‘negative-subsidy’ offshore wind power has almost arrived”. The inclusion of the word “almost” seems, in retrospect, to have been very wise. The article claimed, somewhat optimistically: The offshore wind farms auctioned last September in the…
The Hard Right Packing of the UK Supreme Court CRAIG MURRAY Unlike the USA, where it is obsessively watched, the UK has no political culture of scrutinising the political composition of its Supreme Court. This is a big mistake. The UK Supreme Court has been deliberately and openly, even ostentatiously, packed with hard right judges…
SALLUST Jordan Peterson has written a piece for the Telegraph called ‘Climate change catastrophism is a Leftist weapon to destroy capitalism’. He starts by referencing the current “moral panic” about air conditioning, the banning of which is another futile gesture as a hot summer leads to “the usual flood of exaggerated concerns”. He lays the blame on…
Bloody awful work creeps in when standards are relaxed UK universities’ Augean stables DAVID MCGROGAN Oh, God of Earth and Altar/Bow down and hear our cryOur earthly rulers falter/Our people drift and die -Iron Maiden Perhaps you are familiar with the Richard Scarry story called ‘The Unlucky Day?’ In it, Mr Raccoon wakes up one…
Forget the left vs right of politics, the real battle is between collectivism and individualism RHODA WILSON Collectivism is the belief that the group is more important than the individual and that individuals must be sacrificed, if necessary, for the greater good of the greater number. Below are the 7 pillars of collectivism as identified…
FRANK HAVILAND Piddington in Oxfordshire is the sort of village which once graced our Christmas Quality Street tins (pre-shrinkflation, naturally). A rural idyll home to approximately 350 carefree souls. No shops, no village pub even (although, as an alcoholic, I am pleased to learn via the parish newsletter that there is a ‘pop-up pub’ held in…
