Straight to the point

Here is part of the script of another video which the thoroughly evil YouTube considers too dangerous for public consumption. This one was first broadcast early in July 2020. It is clearly feared by the wicked 7-year-old censors at YouTube that my enti…

In decent families people stick by one another when they’re in trouble – especially when they haven’t actually been found guilty of anything other, perhaps, than naivety, a little arrogance and some stupidity. (Making that BBC programme exhibited all t…

Greens like to pretend that ethanol (fuel made from grains or sugar) is a new idea thought up by them.

It’s not.

In 1908, Henry Ford designed his Model T motor car to run on ethanol. And before that ethanol was used as motor fuel in Germany.

Ethanol…

The phrase ‘moral hazard’ describes the incentive to behave badly because someone is insulated from the consequences of his actions. It happens everywhere in the public sector.

Public sector employees have for years taken decisions in the comfortable …

This is a long standing series of small items which have caught my eye or mind and which seem relevant, startling, amusing or all three. Occasionally, items which appear here may return as a longer piece. Mostly they will not.

A friend had to go to th…