Arts
I DON’T Love Lucy
I used to be OK at chess but reluctantly I have had to turn down commentating on the Todd Wellington (USA) vs Sven Magnusson (Sweden) international chess match in Wreck Yer Vick. That’s disappointing because [more…]
Politics
America
What Does “White Privilege” Really Mean and Is It True?
The term “White Privilege” is the term being used as a justification for all kinds of reverse-discrimination policies and even as Mao-style forced confessions of captive audiences, such as school children and employees of government [more…]
Authoritarianism
“Keynes is the winner of the day, not Milton Friedman”
To many of us, no matter how well versed in history, in political affairs or in socioeconomic issues, the present conditions in the West, and especially in Europe, can sometimes seem like the plot of [more…]
Economics
OTF (Own Two Feet) Party, Part Fourteen
Traditional family from 10,000 BC to about 1975 AD A man and woman would marry, the man would provide and the woman would keep house and bring up children, supporting each other along the way. [more…]
America
A Puffin’s Guide to The Midterms
What are the midterms? The midterms are elections contested halfway between US presidential elections. With the last presidential election (the Steal) being on the first Tuesday of November 2020 and the next presidential election being [more…]
America
Report from the DPRK: Election Dis Integrity
Efforts to ensure “democracy” in recent years have focused on expanding not voting rights, already well-established, but voting convenience and capacity. The methods chosen empower opportunities for election irregularities or outright fraud. These new rules [more…]
Conservatives
The Missing Factor in Britain’s Economic Recovery Plan
Despite much anticipation the economic recovery plan proposed by Britain’s Tory Party after the departure of former prime minister, Boris Johnson, is missing one key ingredient that will ensure its failure–spending cuts. The new “temporary [more…]
Economics
OTF (Own Two Feet) Party, Part Thirteen
Introduction If we wish to be allowed to live as we see fit, it is accepted that we must be responsible for our own failures too when they occur. And obviously that means we should [more…]
Conservatives
Growth must be backed by knowledge – not just words
In raking over the embers of Truss/Kwarteng aspirational economics a few observations are still pertinent. The fiscal “event” they staged was, its critics opined, “stillborn”, dead at birth – with no hope of getting it [more…]