Technology and the environment
While China is approving the equivalent of two coal-fired power station per week, the question arises as to what technologies might be deployed to solve some of the problems we face.
Misinformation on Twitter explains the media
In 2024 the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) revealed that a network of accounts on X were posing as young American women, stealing images from European influencers to burnish their credibility.
The BBC scandals
Some major controversies and scandals have involved the BBC over recent years. This is not an exhaustive list of them, but does cover the high-profile ones.
Apparently economic wealth comes from doing things the expensive way
The UK could end its reliance on exporting plastic waste by 2030 to support the creation of 5,400 new jobs and take responsibility for the environmental impact of its waste, according to research.
Is it quantity, not quality, of corn syrup that makes the difference?
Some have suggested that corn syrup, which is added to so many American foodstuffs, is worse for obesity than other types of sugar.
That £700 million fish disco is why we’ve no productivity growth
More than £700 million is being spent at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station on measures expected to save 0.083 salmon and 0.028 sea trout per year.
The most hated building in London
The old Department of the Environment building on Marsham Street in Westminster, sometimes called the Marsham Towers, gained a reputation as the most hated building in London for several reasons:
How glorious it is to see Worstall’s Fallacy alive and well in The Guardian
Worstall’s Fallacy is to demand what must be done without taking account of what is already done.
Housing the homeless in the sunshine
It’s a thought experiment to consider whether UK homeless and destitute people could be sent, voluntarily, to a Caribbean island to live in purpose-built accommodation with medical facilities on hand.
Sweeties after the medicine Chancellor, sweeties after the medicine
To equate backbench MPs with recalcitrant toddlers is to be unfair to recalcitrant toddlers of course.
You can toothsuck about what should be all you like, reality’s still going to smack you in the chops
As with our constant insistence that no business plan survives first contact with the market we need to point out that no moral philosophy survives a confrontation with reality.
Of course it’s worse if they do understand this
Of course the process has been abused - we are talking of politics here so of course it will be abused.