by editor | Nov 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Pigs are prolific breeders, reaching sexual maturity at six months, and with each sow capable of giving birth to up to a dozen piglets, after gestation lasting an average 115 days. Thus it is a remarkable testimonial to the devastating impact of African swine...
by editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Top Page Links
“Both parties have “abandoned fiscal restraint” in favour of more borrowing” By Prof. Syed Kamall, courtesy of IEA Today’s election speeches show both parties have abandoned fiscal restraint in favour of increases in public spending to be paid for...
by editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Top Page Links
“How to Destroy the European Union” By Prince Michael of Liechtenstein, courtesy of ECAEF and GIS Once, the “European idea” helped unite a war-weary continent. Now, overbearing central authorities, suffocating bureaucracies and reams of red tape...
by editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Nicolas Lecaussin, courtesy of IREF and Contrepoints California is becoming the new France. Here we prefer the poor to the rich, and we do everything to tax and punish the well-off. Except it turns out it doesn’t work in California either — in fact...
by editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Top Page Links
“Chile’s Success Story Is Difficult to Deny” By Ian Vásquez, courtesy of the Cato Institute Weeks after a 3.75% rise in metro fares in Santiago, Chile sparked violent protests by a small group of students that then generated more widespread...
by editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Grégory Claeys, Simone Tagliapietra, and Georg Zachmann, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute European Commission president-designate Ursula von der Leyen has made climate change a top priority, promising to propose a European Green Deal that would make Europe...
