So, when does the Brexit dividend arrive then?
This is a slightly altered version of a comment I left on a Brexit page on Facebook as prompted by this article about IMF forecasts and related issues at Reuters: The most ardent Brexit supporters have...
View ArticleEU “chat control”
Let me start by saying that I am no techie and I do not understand exactly what the EU are proposing with this law. Perhaps I am getting steamed up about nothing. But it sounds horrible. I first read...
View ArticleThat EU “chat control” thing is still out there
Remember EU “chat control”? It’s growing, putting out roots. The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most...
View ArticleNigel Lawson, RIP
I am saddened to read that Nigel Lawson, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, and an articulate advocate of the UK’s departure from the EU (and also a rigorous debunker of global warming...
View ArticleThe real test is tiddlywinks
When you lose the big match, try to get the result declared void and run the match again. If you can’t get a rematch, try another game entirely and say that’s the one that matters. “Citizens’ juries...
View ArticleThe commoners go off script
MARULLUS: Be gone! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude. FLAVIUS: Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault...
View ArticleA Lamborghini tractor at the gates of Downing Street
“If we don’t learn from the Dutch eco quagmire we might end up with Farmer Clarkson as PM”, warns the Times. Jeremy Clarkson is a bit too much of a Remainer for my political tastes, but we could do a...
View ArticleThe BBC frequently does tell people “who to support and who to condemn”
Four days ago John Simpson of the BBC wrote this article, “Why BBC doesn’t call Hamas militants ‘terrorists’ – John Simpson”, in which he said, “It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the single greatest threat to free speech in Europe
“The #DSA (Digital Services Act) is here to protect free speech against arbitrary decisions.” So said Thierry Breton, EU’s Internal Market Commissioner, in a recent tweet. Given the extraordinary level...
View ArticleYes, Leave voters probably were on average less intelligent than Remain voters
If the philosopher A. C. Grayling ever had ambitions to stand for elected office, this tweet will have killed them stone dead: U of Bath study: "only 40% of people with the lowest cognitive ability...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the EU’s selective affinity to the rule of law
Donald Tusk sends riot police to purge media of critical journalists – and suddenly the EU has nothing to say about the ‘Rule of Law’ – Will Jones
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – possible signs of change at Davos edition
“There were no marches for Adam Smith or posters of Milton Friedman at Davos this year, but the applause for the combative defense of free markets by Argentina’s new libertarian President Javier Milei...
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