If you’re under the age of 53, no human being has ever left low Earth orbit in your lifetime. Just nine spaceflights, all under the Apollo Program, took human beings beyond Earth orbit at all. And they all took place in a four-year burst between December 1968 and December 1972. Tonight, NASA attempts to change […]
Who will answer the call to become Britain’s Javier Milei? The Argentine president who single‑handedly tamed monthly inflation from 25.5% when he took office to just 2.2% at the start of this year. The man who the World Bank now predicts will oversee a remarkable 5.5% GDP expansion in 2025. Who has axed Argentina’s fiscal […]
The political situation in Northern Ireland is, undoubtedly, difficult. As one fictional minister from the Armando Iannucci movie In The Loop once explained to a fictional foreign government, we have a saying for situations like this in the UK: ‘difficult, difficult, lemon difficult’. While no solution is perfect, it is fair to say that any proposal […]
There is a new form of bafflingly illogical social media crowing that needs to be put to bed. Those who erroneously asserted that ‘lockdowns don’t work’ are bizarrely claiming victory now that restrictions are rightly coming to an end. ‘We told you all along’, they say. Contending that those of us who accepted the need […]
Legislators should be in no doubt that we are hurtling towards a demographic crisis. ONS figures released just yesterday reveal that the number of people aged over the age of 85 will almost double in the next 25 years. More significantly still, there will be 59,000 more deaths than births over the next decade. A […]
One thousand six hundred and ninety million pounds. That’s the amount the taxpayer is to stump up to avoid the immediate collapse of the UK’s seventh largest energy supplier, Bulb. And it doesn’t stop there. Administrators estimate it will cost £2.1 billion in total in order to keep Bulb trading until the end of April, […]
Germany has announced it will be ending its ban on the recreational use of cannabis. In doing so it follows in the footsteps of the Netherlands, Canada, 18 US states and Washington DC. The developed world is moving in one direction on this issue. No part of it that has shifted cannabis from a criminal […]
Who calls Net Zero nonsense, accuses world leaders of pushing in the wrong direction and has already decreed COP26 a useless failure? No, these are not just the positions of the smaller-by-the-day tribe of climate change sceptics, but of the COP26 climate change protestors too. The crowds who marched through Glasgow holding signs decrying COP26 […]
