Monthly Archives: October 2008

These words were Margaret Thatcher’s response when told that Port Stanley had been re-taken and that the Falklands Islands were back under British control.  They also seemed the ideal injunction as we celebrated the Twentieth anniversary of her famous Bruges … Continue reading →

I welcome the British government’s decision to advise councils not to prosecute traders for selling goods in Imperial measures.  But I am concerned that the law is still on the statute book, and that traders selling a pound of potatoes … Continue reading →

This graph shows average global temperature records for the last five years from two of the world’s most respected meteorological institutes, the UK’s Hadley Centre, and the University of Alabama in the US.  Both show a clear downward trend, and … Continue reading →

Psychiatrists in the US have identified a new disease.  They have described what they call “Dark Green Carborexics”, who they say are not so much eco-campaigners as “obsessive/compulsive” types.    In their determination to reduce the perceived dangers to the … Continue reading →

Or maybe not.  Colin Powell, the highly respected former Defence Secretary in a Republican Administration, has backed Senator Obama in the US Presidential race, calling him a “Generational change” and a “Transformational figure”.  Of Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate … Continue reading →

OK.  Here comes a big dose of self-justification.   I recently published on Conservative Home an article on climate change, and why I disagree with the alarmist position.  It attracted a huge response, much of it positive, but of course … Continue reading →

The conventional wisdom is that the current financial crisis marks the failure of markets, possibly the end of capitalism.  We have had Will Hutton doing the rounds of the media studios pouring scorn on anyone who has a good word … Continue reading →

Let’s try a thought experiment.  The local shop has run out of your usual baby formula for your bouncing six-month-old.  But they offer you a Chinese substitute.  Naturally, you’re worried, because you’ve read about Chinese milk products in the paper.  … Continue reading →