November 14, 2023
A few days after the July Spanish elections I wrote an article entitled “Spain on the edge of the cliff” in which I took for granted the pact between the Socialist Party (PSOE) and its separatist allies. Now that this has been consummated after a theatrical tug-of-war, no one can remain impassive or pretend any...
Climate Change
October 17, 2023
After more than fifteen years studying and writing about climate change (formerly known as global warming), I have come to several conclusions. First, science is not yet capable of understanding the complexities of climate, a multifactorial, non-linear, complex, and chaotic system, so the demonization of CO2 and the emphatic assertions and attributions typical of climate...
Politics
September 22, 2023
We often accuse the political class of lacking values, but are politicians an exception or do they merely reflect the lack of values (or, rather, virtues) of the society that votes for them? Can the average voter value truth or honesty, for example, yet vote for psychopaths, pathological liars and scoundrels? “The city is...
Climate Change
August 15, 2023
My wife’s British great-grandmother was an elegant and spartan lady, and when her young daughters complained about the weather, she would reply undaunted: “Little girls, little girls, in winter it’s cold and in summer it’s hot”. Well, when climate change propagandists take advantage of run-of-the-mill heat waves to repeat their tiresome catastrophist litanies about the...
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Covid
March 7, 2023
A few days ago, the FBI director stated that “most likely” the origin of the pandemic had been an accidental laboratory leak in Wuhan[1], thus adding to various “intelligence” reports that have been emerging recently and to the conclusions of an eminently scientific report of the US Senate published in October 2022[2] that ruled out...
Politics
November 14, 2023
A few days after the July Spanish elections I wrote an article entitled “Spain on the edge of the cliff” in which I took for granted the pact between the Socialist Party (PSOE) and its separatist allies. Now that this has been consummated after a theatrical tug-of-war, no one can remain impassive or pretend any...
September 22, 2023
We often accuse the political class of lacking values, but are politicians an exception or do they merely reflect the lack of values (or, rather, virtues) of the society that votes for them? Can the average voter value truth or honesty, for example, yet vote for psychopaths, pathological liars and scoundrels? “The city is...
Climate Change
October 17, 2023
After more than fifteen years studying and writing about climate change (formerly known as global warming), I have come to several conclusions. First, science is not yet capable of understanding the complexities of climate, a multifactorial, non-linear, complex, and chaotic system, so the demonization of CO2 and the emphatic assertions and attributions typical of climate...
August 15, 2023
My wife’s British great-grandmother was an elegant and spartan lady, and when her young daughters complained about the weather, she would reply undaunted: “Little girls, little girls, in winter it’s cold and in summer it’s hot”. Well, when climate change propagandists take advantage of run-of-the-mill heat waves to repeat their tiresome catastrophist litanies about the...
Economy
February 7, 2020
Venezuela is a tragedy as much as it is a warning. A warning of how a once-rich country can end up oppressed and impoverished by radical socialism and communism (how many more examples will we need?), of how a people can destroy itself deceived by the promises of demagogues and of how a democracy can...
July 5, 2019
In a recent speech, Spain’s acting Finance Minister advocated for an increase in the size of the government and announced a brutal tax hike while criticizing the idea that “taxpayers’ money is better in their own pockets,” a concept she dismissed as a “mantra”. The whole sentence, copied word for word from an article published...
