They ”set the target and boasted about it for years, but it was all spin and no delivery.'

Today Scotland, tomorrow the world. These ‘legally binding’ emissions targets are virtue signals, unable to survive contact with political & economic reality.

heraldscotland.com/news/24262747.…

We don’t have unlimited resources.

Where can the world spend a dollar and do the most good for the future?

This list by 50+ teams of world-class economists shows the best—and not so good—investments (longer lines better).

From my peer-reviewed article: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

NFU (National Farmers' Union) President Tom Bradshaw (@proagriltd) has responded to my article on British farming and imports in The Telegraph.

The muddled response accuses me of 'closed-minded attitudes to international trade [that] will hurt British consumers and harm food security.'

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This is a good illustration of the Mises/Hayek economic calculation fallacy as applied to climate economics.

Or the delusion of central planners and modellers that given sufficient information they can accurately predict the future.

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Britain is not self-sufficient in food and has not been for several centuries.

Global supply chains increase food security and offer customers more options at lower prices.

My extended blog responds to the critics IEA:

iea.org.uk/free-trade-vs-…

The guiding ideology of the early 21st century is naffism. The desire of those in power to control really stupid petty stuff rather than deal with hard choices like getting out of the way.

Citizen assemblies are not 'deliberative democracy' - what utter tosh

Citizen assemblies are a curated farce to get a desired outcome

As Ireland shows, they are a nonsense and in no way democratic

We've become a very dishonest nation - 🧐🧐🧐

In the 2030s the UK will have a lively trade in offshore smoking clubs and pleasure cruises.

Much as Scandinavia has created a booze cruise culture with their high duty rates.

The Principality of Sealand will no doubt be getting a refit.

It seems to me a comment in the times that the Mayor of Brussels decided to suppress the free speech of people who wish to suppress free movement on the day the British government decided to suppress free choice over what to do when not moving or speaking.

🚭 🗣️ 'You're treating people who are 15 now as though they are never going to be adults'.

Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 discusses the generational tobacco ban 👇

.Jake Berry MP intervention in today's Tobacco and Vapes Bill debate:
'I ask them to cast their mind back to the last time we were all washed through the Aye lobby together on a wave of health and science and righteous hope to keep people safe. It was during the Covid pandemic.' 1/3

If you think the energy transition is going well, look at this:

Not only is clean energy barely even visible on a graph of energy use globally,

But oil and gas is still growing.

What’s going on here? (🧵)

Why is the party of Winston Churchill banning smoking? spiked-online.com/2024/04/16/why…

.Kristian Niemietz is the Sarah Connor of the housing crisis

Interesting, do you hail them by yelling Maaaate?

What leading the world on Net Zero looks like

Defending liberty can mean defending ‘bad’ things: the right to offend, to drink, to get fat, to vape, to smoke.

Who will mount that defence today?

spectator.co.uk/article/how-th…

The unifying principle of populism, which is otherwise an incoherent spectrum of conflicting views, is the narrative of a conspiracy of the elites against the people. It tends to win elections when incumbents make such narratives credible...

If you think all of this is real I have a bridge to sell you.