Monthly Archives: February 2021

What can the reader make of this paragraph of Mr. Robson’s interview with Josh Cohen? “Can you imagine if you presented Freud to Jane Austen?” Cohen asked me recently, during a two-hour amble around Kensal Rise, near where he lives … Continue reading →

Headline:Joe Biden can save global migration from the deep freeze Sub-headline: Through example and sheer numbers, an open US could bring an open world … ‘This criminally undersells it. Whatever their content, previous reforms were of national or perhaps regional … Continue reading →

Read Mr. Colvile’s C.V. as posted at the Center for Policy Studies web site: Robert Colvile is Director of the CPS and Editor-in-Chief of CapX, as well as a columnist for The Sunday Times. In December 2019 he took a … Continue reading →

Preview in new tab Headline: UK ruling on worker recognition threatens to crash Uber model Sub-headline:Ride-hailing app now faces having to deal with holiday pay, minimum wage, sick leave and pension contributions https://www.ft.com/content/643de8f2-8098-41a3-9e9e-b9eee25f4593 In California Uber, and its political allies, … Continue reading →

Andy opens his essay with this sentence: ‘If there’s one core assumption shared by the two tribes of our culture, it is that America will soon be a “majority-minority” nation.’ The relevant question is glaringly obvious, who are these ‘two … Continue reading →

I don’t think that anyone can doubt the failure of the whole of America’s Political Class! Trump is just the symptom. Neo-Liberalism’s Social/Political/Economic Engineering destroyed what was left of The New Deal, and in its place Free Market Utopianism gained … Continue reading →

M. 37 % can’t govern his own country, as ‘The Rebellion Against the Elites’ keeps appearing every Saturday, like clockwork. While unreported in this newspaper! Here is Macron as he addresses the burning question facing the ‘West’: “It’s an unprecedented … Continue reading →

Headline: China targets rare earth export curbs to hobble US defence industry Sub-headline: Beijing asks industry executives if proposed restrictions will harm western contractors China is exploring limiting the export of rare earth minerals that are crucial for the manufacture … Continue reading →

The New Cold War is already here! The ‘Enemies’ are Russia, China and Iran, with a minor, but pivotal role, for North Korea. Mr. Ganesh writes ‘as if’ this doesn’t constitute the present political reality. Joe Biden’s choices of Blinken, … Continue reading →

Should the regular reader of this newspaper be surprised at this paragraph in this ‘news story’ about Le Pen? Headline: Marine Le Pen purrs as President Macron’s attack dog scampers round to the right … It is Macron himself who … Continue reading →