As The National Trust Proves, Medieval Strip Fields Are Inefficient
As anyone who went through the tedium of the old fashioned O Level syllabus knows, the Industrial Revolution was presaged, perhaps accompanied by, an...
The Latest Mad Advice To The UN – Let’s All Be Poorer!
We've another of those pieces of environmental drivel on offer to us. Here it's the considered opinions of some Finnish knownothings on what is...
Cheese And Red Meat – Why Government’s A Bad Way To Do Anything
We've a new little report, piece of scientific research, telling us that cheese and red meat are good for us. This in entire opposition...
Matt Bruenig’s Social Wealth Fund Wouldn’t Change Wealth Distribution By A Single Mote Nor...
Matt Bruenig has come up with an idea to create a vast investment fund, owned collectively by all Americans. The idea is to change...
To Re-Examine Mark Weisbrot’s Predictions About Venezuela’s Bolivarian Socialism
One of the joys of this here internet age is that we've got, laid out before us in easily accesible archives, the predictions of...
The Problems With Modern Vanilla Ice Cream
Which Magazine tells us that many modern vanilla ice creams contain not much cream and possibly no vanilla. An outrage, clearly. About which The...
Jeff Bezos Entirely Right – Humans Shouldn’t Do Work Software Can Do
Good to see that Jeff Bezos, of Amazon, has the right attitude towards human labour. We wish to destroy jobs wherever and whenever we...
The Value Of Food Imports – Weather Makes British Food 5% More Expensive
We're told in those usual tones of shock and horror that British grown food is likely to rise in price by about 5% this...
Goodhart’s Law Applies To Economies, To Everything – Why Not Scheduled Airline Flight Times?
Which Magazine has stumbled across one of those "Yeah, Well?" things in its analysis of airline scheduled flight times. They've found that what the...
A Question About Bernie’s Medicare For All – Why Not Medicaid For All?
As we know Bernie Sanders wants to sort out American medical care once and for all by establishing what he calls Medicare For All....