Tim Worstall has been arguing about the balance of payments: He’s committing the mercantilist fallacy, that exports are either the point of trade or that they make us rich. No, it is imports that make us rich, exports being merely … Continue reading
There’s a Flash game online at Gamesfree called Polar Bear Parking. This seeks to educate the public about the dangers facing Polar Bears and, indeed, ourselves from Global Warming. And very educative it is too. I hadn’t realised that penguins … Continue reading
… just not for us. Read this exceptional post and discussion about the film Persepolis.
I get involved in detailed calculations about these things, from time to time, because I wrote the carbon profiling software that, among other users, the UK government recommends for use by landowners and farmers (I make a point of never … Continue reading
Sent today to their Press Office (press_office@west-midlands.police.uk) and cc’d to the head of department (a.l.telford@west-midlands.pnn.police.uk): In your apology to the makers of this documentary, you wrote: “A review of the evidence (including untransmitted footage and scripts) by Ofcom demonstrated that … Continue reading
Irena Sendler saved perhaps 2,500 Jewish* children from the Warsaw ghetto. She later said: I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little The Gestapo broke her legs and feet, dumped her unconscious by a roadside after … Continue reading
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A thirteen year old boy who ran up a $30,000 bill on his father’s credit card, ordering two hookers from a hotel room, among other things, wants to be a politician when he grows up. Presumably, his defence in court … Continue reading
Why is Gordon Brown so unpopular? There are of course a number of factors, including luck – Blair was P.M. during an economic boom that was partly global, partly the legacy of the Tories’ administration up to 1997; Brown’s own … Continue reading
Some more YouTube clips. Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard and Mike Tyson in a two part chat show. And here’s one I hadn’t seen before. Ali, introduced by Will Smith, talking about 9/11.