Aug
14
2018
My friend Robert has sent me an article by Daniel Hannan (Brexit for the thinking man Hannan) called ‘From Adam Smith onwards classical liberals have known that capitalism makes people less selfish”. You could have fooled me. It comes with a...
Jul
31
2018
Adam Smith, Daniel Hannan and Mrs Thatcher
My friend Robert has sent me an article by Daniel Hannan (Brexit for the thinking man Hannan) called ‘From Adam Smith onwards classical liberals have known that capitalism makes people less selfish”. You could have...
Jul
29
2018
Many leave voters voted for Brexit because they looked back to an idyllic Britain the Spitfires defended in 1940 - the green fields and country lanes, the verges crammed with wild flowers and the hedges full of singing birds...
Jul
27
2018
Britain has just achieved its lowest carbon emissions since 1909 and that has to be good news. But not that good. Globally, 2017 achieved the highest carbon emissions on record. In any case, such news misses the point and could...
Jul
24
2018
Why be a Vegan?
The world’s cow herd creates more greenhouse gas than the world’s car fleet. It’s the industrially produced meat that is really harmful, both tearing down rainforests to grow the soya and the increased methane from...
Jul
20
2018
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only,...
Jul
13
2018
When you look at independent countries who are doing well even though they are not members of big trading blocs you find in every case that there is a good reason. South Korea has a highly educated workforce and...
Jul
10
2018
Can we arrest the wild life catastrophe? Yes we can
In Britain we are facing a wild life catastrophe. A recent State of Nature report described the UK as “one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world”. One in...