History
193 Schools Queue To Rediscover Walls
The traditional classroom can now return under a more modern name. Adaptive enclosed learning environment should do it. That allows schools to install four walls and a door without admitting the basic design was already familiar to everybody’s grandparents.
Why Britain’s New Marxist Leader Suddenly Loves Oil
There’s an old saying credited to a Rothschild about investing when there’s “blood in the streets.” He may be right. But he probably wasn’t picturing London when he said it.
We Should Have Paid More Attention
The deadly seeds of the ’70s burst into poison flowers in the 2000s.
The 1970s – By One Who Was There
With Andy Burnham set to take Britain back to the 1970s, Guy de la Bédoyère looks back at a golden and not-so-golden age where he spent some of his most formative years. What was it really like?
Cycles of Enthusiasm, Reversal, and Revival in Medical Practice
If you are being offered a new drug, surgical procedure, or screening program, you might want to think of its history. Where does it lie in the continuum of Enthusiasm, Reversal or Revival?
Why Are We Paying for This Drivel?
ABC ‘journalist’ seriously tries to compare robotics to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The Corruption of the Word Privilege
Returning the word privilege to its older use would do more than restore a definition. It would restore our capacity to see the actual injustice in the room: not that one young woman stands at the front, but that so many of her classmates now stand at the back.
Gaming the Clock for Industry
Can we just put a stop to this long disaster and follow the sun again, or, at very least, adopt a uniform system that comes close? Maybe we all just need a sundial.
The Schoolkid Who Saved a Good Man’s Reputation
A high school history project exposed the truth about the USS Indianapolis.
How Long Will Burnham Last?
Political Betting is a weekly column by Mark Littlewood aimed at people who like gambling on politics.
They Were Better than He’ll Ever Be
Obama’s seething resentment of the Founding Fathers.
Are We Losing How To Be Human?
Be like the man alone fishing on the shore and never succumb to the lie that the act of DOING is something that needs to be sped up or removed from the human equation. DOING is not far from BEING.
