Matt Ridley
Author, newspaper columnist, rational optimist, peer, Northumbrian. Keen on science, scepticism, genes, evolution, innovation, "ideas having sex".
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Conservatives Headed for Commanding Majority in U.K. Vote: ‘Brexit Will Happen’
The strong showing is vindication for Boris Johnson, who now has a chance to put his personal stamp on Britain, beginning with Brexit.
Conservatives on course to win majority - exit poll
The Tories are set to win a majority of 86 with Labour losing 71 seats, the general election exit poll suggests.
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European protectionism does not only discriminate against poor countries, raise costs for domestic consumers and damage the competitiveness of domestic producers. Increasingly it also results in...
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The EU’s absurd risk aversion stifles new ideas
With tariffs announced against Brazil and Argentina, and a threat against France, Donald Trump is dragging the world deeper into a damaging trade war. Largely unnoticed, the European Union is also in trouble at the World Trade Organisation for its...
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Now on my website: The EU’s absurd risk aversion stifles new ideas — rationaloptimist.com/blog/eu-risk-a… pic.twitter.com/FgUM4fFwhE
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Last month, at the WTO meeting in Geneva, India joined a list of countries including Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and Malaysia that have lodged formal complaints against the EU over barriers to agricultural imports
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RICHARD KAY: David Bellamy, the jolly green giant of broadcasting
RICHARD KAY: David was everywhere - on Bellamy's Britain, Bellamy's Europe and Bellamy's Backyard Safari. He was larger than life in every way - a physically big and dominating presence.
Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate – and the same is true for scooters and electric cars
Researchers from Harvard University have made an interesting and hilarious discovery with regards to wind power, which actually causes more global warming than the burning of fossil fuels does. While massive wind farms are said by some to be the...
Scottish Scandal: Government Squanders £600 Million on ‘Constraint Payments’ to Wind Power Outfits for Discarded Power
Electricity that can’t be delivered as and when it’s needed has no commercial value. Indeed, when the gales rip across the Scottish Highlands and there’s a surfeit of wind power generated, that ele…
We Pioneered a Technology to Save Millions of Poor Children, But a Worldwide Smear Campaign Has Blocked It
The frustrating saga of Golden Rice may be about to reach a turning point
Labour’s UK-US trade documents stunt was an ignorant farce
In last Friday’s leaders’ debate on the BBC, Jeremy Corbyn repeatedly claimed that UK and US trade negotiators discussed extending the duration of medicines patents, increasing the cost of medicine…
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With tariffs announced against Brazil and Argentina, and a threat against France, Donald Trump is dragging the world deeper into a damaging trade war.
Largely unnoticed, the European Union is also...
The EU’s absurd risk aversion stifles new ideas
With tariffs announced against Brazil and Argentina, and a threat against France, Donald Trump is dragging the world deeper into a damaging trade war. Largely unnoticed, the European Union is also...
Matt Ridley
Excessive regulation means the health and environmental benefits of new technology are suppressed
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Sunday Politics North East and Cumbria - 08/12/2019
Richard Moss with the latest political news, interviews and debate.
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"If you have a job today, it's almost a guarantee that automation created that job or allowed it to exist in its current form. Worrying about technology's effect on employment makes no sense from a...
Let’s start fracking
Former fracking tsar Natascha Engel says shale gas has economic and environmental benefits.
Roger Harrabin breaks BBC impartiality rules
On Friday night Nick Robinson hosted the Johnson v Corbyn debate with scrupulous impartiality, ensuring that each candidate had the same amount of time to speak, in accordance with BBC guide…
Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades
<p>It is thought that a warming climate may lead to a global decline in the amount of oxygen that is dissolved in the oceans, as a result of reduced oxygen solubility and less ventilation of the deep ocean. Such a decline in dissolved oxygen could...
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"Reddit revealed it has banned 61 accounts it believes could be part of a disinformation campaign that was first uncovered in June."
24 books Mark Zuckerberg thinks everyone should read to understand today's world
The Facebook CEO launched his book club in 2015 with a reading list that focused on "different cultures, beliefs, histories, and technologies."