Matt Ridley
Writer, biologist, rational optimist, peer, Northumbrian. Keen on evolution, innovation, 'ideas having sex'. Pre-order How Innovation Works: amzn.to/2Uva
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Saying yes slowly is what’s hampering progress today | The Spectator
Matt Ridley focuses on the hugely cumbersome process involved in turning discovery into useful innovation
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Matt Ridley
"Evolution does not tell you anything about whether or not God exists; it simply proves that, if he does exist, he really hates top-down central planning...
...This is a wonderful book."
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"The BBC has had it confirmed, from the researchers running a respected Chinese database, that it is the same virus as one that WIV previously referred to as RaBatCov/4991 in this paper. There is no...
Letter to Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University – The Free Speech Union
The language the Tudor historian David Starkey used in an interview with the young journalist Darren Grimes crossed the line, as he admitted when he apologised for it. He described it as “deplorably inflammatory” and a “bad mistake”. But did he...
Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World - Quillette
Climate change isn't causing wars, making disasters worse, or causing food shortages. A visit to the Congo illustrates why that is.
Matt Ridley
My latest article is about why I was wrong to be pessimistic about the planet when I was working as a conservationist in 1980, and why it is wrong to give young people a counsel of despair today...
A message for Rishi: do less and let others do more - CapX
Some politicians are known by just a single name. It’s the big golden prize to be one of them. For most, the most likely name to be known by will be their surname. But for a gilded few, the country knows them by their first name. Winston, Maggie,...
Against Environmental Pessimism
Doomsday thinking about the environment has been popular for decades. A rational optimist lays out the many reasons we can be hopeful about the future of the planet.
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Western tragopans did not go extinct: Why I was wrong to be pessimistic about the planet when I was working as a conservationist in 1980, and why it is wrong to give young people a counsel of despair today about the environment in 2060.
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Against Environmental Pessimism | Doomsday thinking about the environment has been popular for decades. A rational optimist lays out the many reasons we can be hopeful about the future of the planet.
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The seven billion people who now inhabit the planet are far better fed than the four billion of 1980.
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Who do we think we’re kidding with the NHS? | Christopher Snowdon | The Critic Magazine
My local GP surgery has a little scam that I am told is widely used across the country. When you phone up for a doctor’s appointment, the receptionist pretends that they are fully booked for the next…
BREAKING: James Price elected President of The Oxford Union | The Oxford Blue
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Wuhan: City of silence
Searching for the origin of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China
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Matt Ridley
"The BBC has had it confirmed, from the researchers running a respected Chinese database, that it is the same virus as one that WIV previously referred to as RaBatCov/4991 in this paper. There is no explanation for the change of name." @Ayjchan @ydeigin
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The New Deal and Recovery, Part 4: FDR's Fed - Alt-M
George Selgin concentrates on the Federal Reserve's direct contribution to money growth and the bearing that the New Deal had on it.
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How innovation works
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How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley review — getting Britain going again
This is an important book that deserves to be widely read and discussed, now more than ever. It deals with the vital subject of innovation. This is not the same as invention; innovation is the
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"Innovation will be key in helping to revive Britain. This excellent analysis shows how it’s done."
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The grand design for building a better Britain conceals a back door to socialist revolution
Last week the former Archbishop of Canterbury and the heads of the UK’s main business lobby groups called for a socialist revolution. You may have missed it. They almost certainly missed it themselves
The Purity Posse pursues Pinker
The Woke are after Pinker again, and if he’s called a racist and misogynist, as he is in this latest attempt to demonize him, then nobody is safe. After all, Pinker is a liberal Democrat who&…
DOMINIC LAWSON: What has Boris got against miners of Northumberland?
DOMINIC LAWSON: The Conservative Government has been deliberately obstructing a project that would safeguard hundreds of jobs in one of the most depressed areas of the North of England.
Cancer Screening Leaps Forward
Innovation sneaks up on us: There’s a new DNA test that detects more illnesses, earlier.
Rose Paterson obituary
When Rose Paterson turned 55 she decided she needed to do something “wonderfully wacky” with her life. Not only that, she thought her husband, Owen Paterson, who was then the Northern Ireland