Russ Vought, a co-author of the conservative policy blueprint Project 2025, is looking to pick up where Elon Musk is leaving off on.wsj.com/43roTeU

Elon Musk promised $2 trillion in spending cuts but delivered only a fraction of that total. We asked seven budget experts to explain why DOGE couldn't accomplish more. reason.com/2025/05/12/why…

In 1965 (AER), Stigler predicted that economists, armed with “a bulging arsenal of techniques of quantitative analysis…” would open the door to a revolution of economic influence on policy where it would “become impossible for an import-quota system to evade the calculus of

I lost 43 pounds (at latest count) over the last year, and it didn't require Ozempic or anything special; I just stopped absent-mindedly eating more than I needed to eat. I don't think that works for everyone. But it's notable that I never felt hungry, weak, or tired.

Is China's advantage in battery manufacturing due to forced labour and state subsidies? No, argues Hannah Ritchie. Chinese labour costs are cheaper, but it's because of automation not low wages. In fact, US factories use six times as many workers per GWh of battery than BYD.

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I hope the recent visit by Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk will help bring Starlink to the UAE and Emirates. Emirates still offers the best service, and the only reason I fly Qatar is because of the onboard Wi-Fi. While Qatar’s inflight internet is great, Doha airport’s

Something I find incredible: The country is supposedly completely broke. The govt is paralysed by its fear of bond markets. And still somehow we have the money to let people buy brand new electric cars from their pre-tax income, effectively paying 60% of the price for them.

As John Fingleton undertakes a review of nuclear regulations for government, this by Alex Chalmers is a worthwhile read worksinprogress.co/issue/the-bad-…

Council estates often have loads of land given to green spaces that barely get used. This one is usually empty even on sunny afternoons/evenings. Whereas even small gardens get frequent use. How different would housing estates look if we prioritised private gardens for people?

Oh wow, look at all those nitrous oxide canisters at Glastonbury! Clearly, prohibition’s working wonders - if we do the same to tobacco, smoking will surely just cease…

In ten years obesity will probably be significantly lower, thanks to GLP-1s – which Nesta objects to on cost grounds – and everyone will say it was because we started fining Tesco for selling too much garlic bread.

We’ve just sent our August The Spectator World off to press. It’s an AI special — jam-packed with terrifyingly brilliant stuff 👇

Why do so few British homes have ACs? 1. 'Part O' Building Regs treat AC as a last resort. 2. Heat pumps that cool too are excluded don't get green grants. 3. Installing a reversible heat pump can leave you with a lower EPC score increasing the cost of your mortgage.

1/ How to keep, and profit from, British Antarctica It's eight times the size of Great Britain and is rich in resources – oil and gas, plus (judging by the geology) plenty of rare earths. The jewel is the peninsula: comparatively mineable, but already contested. A proposal🧵

🚄 "If you could put in an Elizabeth line for the North, you could have a single market for 9 million people - the same kind of thing as London." Lord O'Neill's vision for a northern economic powerhouse. 👇

Below are the maximum prices we’ll be offering per MWh of power generated from new wind and solar projects, and these prices are guaranteed for the next 20 years. Last year the average price for gas was about £75/MWh. And we can turn on gas whenever we want; solar and wind

Repealing the Obama-Biden EPA “endangerment” finding will make it harder for the feds to dictate what kind of car or lawn-mower you can buy, among other benefits. wsj.com/opinion/epa-en… via Wall Street Journal Opinion

This is a British advert for a heat pump from 1982. The main selling point back then was that it worked as AC in the Summer as well as a heater in the Winter. Today, large grants are available to install heat pumps in the UK, but not for the ones that work as ACs too.

New: The Army has paused use of its Ajax armoured vehicles + launched a probe after 30 soldiers were injured using them this weekend MOD confirms after my enquiry this morning, weeks after saying the first were ready to be sent to NATO's eastern flank... bloomberg.com/news/articles/…