Nov
23
2018
The extraordinary muddle over Brexit only underlines what a tragedy Brexit is. Not necessarily because a no deal may be an economic disaster, that would remain to be seen, but because it is sucking all the political oxygen away...
Nov
20
2018
Pretty much every competent economic authority in the world is telling us that a hard Brexit would be a disaster for Britain. "Pooh experts! what do they know about it? These are the people who told us that not...
Nov
13
2018
The scientists are now solemnly warning us that we have only a few years to avoid an environmental catastrophe so vast it will engulf every person in the world. But people don't believe them. It is as if every...
Nov
07
2018
Is science the mythical narrative of western capitalism? Well yes and no. It is not, at least in the sense that science discovers facts about nature and they are true whether the reigning economic system is capitalism or primitive...