This is true. Have begun a regular (monthly or so) philosophy column – beginning this week. Will be bringing you Chinese Rooms, Shallow Ponds, Twin Earths, Veils of Ignorance, Beetles in Boxes and much more…

9/ The best thing that we can do now is to give Ukraine everything we can to defeat russia once and for all.

Having lived in a few countries where people don’t get the chance to choose their own governments, voting in tomorrow’s election is a privilege I will never take for granted! #GeneralElections2024

Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸 One of the virtues of the first-past-the-post system is that it is very sensitive to changes in the electorate's opinion, translates them into changes in power, *and therefore responsibility*: they know the same can happen to them if they don't solve the electorate's problems.

When I meet a fellow Aussie in London, our conversation inevitably turns to the most astonishing facet of life in Old Blighty: The unhinged national obsession with the NHS. My latest for The Telegraph on Australian healthcare and co-payments: telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/1…

'With prisons overflowing and some violent offenders receiving less harsh sentences, a small reduction in the jail terms might have been justified. But despite the backlash from environmentalists, justice has been served.' ✍️ Andrew Tettenborn

[From coverage of UK riots in 2011] If only authorities could control social media nothing bad would happen...

Time for a British First Amendment! edwest.co.uk/p/why-britain-…

If Britain & the European Union are cracking down on free speech, & threatening Americans who exercise our free speech rights online, should America keep spending tens of billions per year to subsidize the defense of Britain & Europe (e.g. through NATO)?

“There is only one principle of war, and that’s this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can,where it hurts him most, when he ain’t lookin.” Viscount Slim our greatest general - they seem to know this in Kyiv #SlavaUkrannii telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/1…

Starmer has just said “There is a Budget coming in October and it is going to be painful" - code for vicious tax hikes During the election Starmer said he "rejects the argument" tax rises are required to rebuild public services & said taxes would not rise. It was all a lie 1/2

From Nigel Huddleston MP: Badenoch commands respect from left and right in our party, and has the character to succeed conservativehome.com/2024/08/28/nig…

The Labour Party does not understand the most basic rules of economics telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/0… They’re not just playing to the gallery. They believe they can interfere with prices & wages without any cost #bbcnews #skynews #ITVNews #GBNews #c4news

Good advice. "Letter: We all need to think twice before scanning a QR code" ft.com/content/637fdc… via @ft

If you read nothing else today this by ⁦Andrew Neil⁩ is a must:-

It is the settled and immoveable will of the French people to live beyond their means - and the British are even worse. Powerful and right from Matthew Syed thetimes.com/comment/column…

Word of the day is 'spuddle' (19th century): to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.

Europe now needs to step up. Massive military rearmament.

Trump is so evil

If a 90-day pause from your own polices makes the market euphoric, maybe take the hint?