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“Our” NHS, the envy of the world, etc., may be on the edge of taking a step that, if approved, will act as a deadly reminder of how brutal health...
Two recent news items are a reminder that, for want of a better term, the “Ozempic shift” continues. In the last year or so, we seem to be seeing...
Some voters have successfully pushed back against the bossiness of the new urbanists, the green technocrats enthused by 15-minute cities, bike lanes,...
Writing in The Atlantic, Elizabeth Glazer, a former federal prosecutor and adviser on public safety, notes how a piece of common sense — that...
Christophe Fouquet is the CEO of ASML, a Dutch company that makes machines that make semiconductors. And when it comes to the world’s smallest (and...
Climatists tend to either actively oppose (or worse) economic growth or be extremely suspicious of it. Unsurprisingly they would like to be another...
That data centers are siphoning away precious water is a theme that trickles through much of the criticism of them, criticism that typically does not...
It’s no revelation that the British economy is in a mess, and it’s no revelation that Britain’s Labour government rarely misses an opportunity...
There was a reference in the Corner yesterday to the “panic over the building of data centers across the country, [with people] citing a variety of...
If there is a career that might be thought to be safe from automation, (military) sniper would seem to be a contender. Indeed, the armed forces will...
Poland has for years been one of this country’s best friends in Europe. Far from being one of the freeloaders that President Trump has rightly...
Should Nvidia be allowed to sell its H200 “AI” chip to China? No. But the administration has given permission for some of these chips to be...
Some predictions don’t, as they jeer on X, “age well.” Back in September, I wrote that Britain and France were “still heading toward...
This, in a couple of senses, was only a matter of time. Investors snagged 5% yields on 30-year Treasuries for the first time since 2007, as surging...
I am old enough to remember the days when Angela Merkel was “Europe’s real leader,” the leader of the free world, and so on. And all this was as...
Uncertainty over the relationship between the U.S. and Europe’s NATO members is already triggering a revival in European arms production, and the...
Warfare tends to accelerate technological advance, and the war in Ukraine is proving no exception in that respect. In January, I noted a report of one...
Tim Shipman has written a useful article in The Spectator (paywalled) in which in the wake of Britain’s local elections, he discusses what might...
The U.K. continues its pointless and self-destructive pursuit of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. These policies will make no difference to...
Britain’s First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) voting system means that smaller/newer parties can find it easier to pile up votes than to win seats. In...
As is becoming all too obvious, Europe is on the edge of an oil crisis. And so (via the Daily Telegraph) this, a few days ago, is what Ed Miliband,...
Many (most?) of the day-to-day gyrations in the oil price reflect scares or hopes of the moment. There is only so much information that can be derived...
Giving only a week’s notice, the UAE will be quitting OPEC after 60 years. The news is not entirely a surprise, the UAE had long felt constrained by...
In the most recent Capital Letter, I wrote about Elizabeth Warren’s proposed Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act, a wealth tax aimed with various degrees of...
A wise man once said that "the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to...
New York City’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently released a smug little video promoting New York State’s proposed new pied-a-terre tax, basically an...
Signs of radicalization among young voters are growing harder and harder to miss, and it is a trend that is not likely to ease up any time soon. At...
Speaking at Senate hearings today, Kevin Warsh, the administration’s nominee for the chairmanship of the Fed, repeated his view that the central...
Writing in The Spectator, James Lawson compares the arrival of the drone with the arrival of the tank. “The drone,” he writes, “has done to the...
Over the years, the campaign against smoking degenerated from a much needed educational effort into an assertion of state power, a means of...
One of the reasons why free enterprise works so well is (apologies, this is basic stuff) because of the discipline provided by the need to earn a...
Spain’s leftist government, led by Pedro Sánchez, an anti-American authoritarian increasingly styled by his admirers as the “leader” of Europe,...
The post-democrats of Brussels are, along with many European governments, very keen on online censorship. Free speech is not a “European value.”...
In a post last month, I noted that: Whether it is because of the need to replace equipment used in the Iran conflict, or the increasingly dangerous...
I returned last night from a long drive (close to 2,000 miles if Google is correct) in the Southwest, in the course of just a few days (research...
Attention is being paid. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has been in the Middle East promoting his country’s remarkable advance in...
Strange as it may seem (the reasons for it are worth a more detailed look at some point) a belief in UAPs/UFOs seems to be increasingly right-coded....
While policies to support the “race” to net zero global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 are likely to persist for a quite a while yet, signs that...
It was always a certainty that serious trouble in the Gulf was going to mean a squeeze on fertilizer supplies, and thus prices. Natural gas is a key...
The pursuit of net-zero has been a disaster for German manufacturing in general and for its auto sector in particular, but German industry’s efforts...
The decision by the Bank of England to replace historical figures such as Winston Churchill on its bank notes with pictures of “wildlife” has...
Whether it is because of the need to replace equipment used in the Iran conflict, or the increasingly dangerous geopolitical situation, or European...
In 1990, about 30 percent of the EU’s electricity was generated by nuclear power, a share that has fallen by about half since then. The EU’s top...
An argument long advanced by Europe’s climate policymakers has been that renewable energy would be a critical step forward to independence from the...
A conflict with Iran was always going to mean a spike in oil and gas prices. That is indeed happening, although the impact will be far harder in...
Given its history and its geography, it is no surprise that Poland takes its defense seriously. Its reaction to the “full” Russian invasion of...
I posted on the Corner the other day about the increasing sophistication of Ukrainian defense tech, the investment it is attracting, and the prospect...
This is, of course, not always the case, but it is telling to see how often acute demand (or acute potential demand) for a resource can lead to...
It was one thing for Keir Starmer, Britain’s enfeebled prime minister, to decline to join in the attack on Iran, but quite another to refuse to...
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin believed that the country that it regarded as a sham would collapse within days....
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