The Tory Tobacco Ban

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — April 20^th 2024 at 06:51

The war against tobacco is, these days, more about control than health.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gives a speech on welfare reform in central London, April 19, 2024.

Brzezinski’s Prophecy, Ferguson’s Law

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — April 21^st 2024 at 06:48

On our current trajectory, this gap will only widen, until it can’t.

Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia attend a signing ceremony at the Kremlin, March 21, 2023.

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — April 22^nd 2024 at 16:30

Best guess: Pay-per-mile is headed London’s way.

London mayor Sadiq Khan outside City Hall in London, May 2016.

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — April 23^rd 2024 at 18:27

Shareholders not in thrall to ESG or climate fundamentalism ought to start speaking out.

A man holds a charging plug to charge a car at a Smart Charge electric vehicle charging station in Beijing, China, February 2, 2024.

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — April 28^th 2024 at 17:53

Moscow continues to apply pressure in the Baltic Sea region.

A Finnair Airbus A320-200 prepares to take off from Manchester Airport in Manchester, England, in 2018.

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — May 3^rd 2024 at 12:51

Surely the wind won’t die down for long periods? We can’t be so sure.

An aerial view shows power-generating windmill turbines in a wind farm in Graincourt-lès-Havrincourt, France, May 19, 2022.

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — May 4^th 2024 at 06:23

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes remains as good a question as it always has been.

French writer Julien Benda

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — May 6^th 2024 at 17:16

Questions about AI’s effects on jobs have not gone away.

Graduating seniors line up to receive their diplomas during Commencement at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass., May 26, 2017.

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — May 8^th 2024 at 07:23

A key part of the U.K.’s green ‘transition’ has been the planned prohibition of the sale of new internal-combustion-engine cars from 2035.

Morning rush hour traffic in central London, July 6, 2020

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — May 11^th 2024 at 08:43

Less demand for EVs means less demand for EV batteries.

A Ford dealership in Alexandria, Va., July 23, 2009