Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. The most memorable speech that Queen Elizabeth II ever gave was five years before her coronation. It was delivered in 1947 on a radio broadcast from South Africa, where she was on a royal
The death of Queen Elizabeth II, whom many thought would go on forever, got me searching for a magazine article published in This England marking her fifty years on the throne. The article gave a very good account of the week leading up to the momentous moment she learned of
Kristoffer Mousten Hansen mises.org Kristoffer Mousten Hansen is a research assistant at the Institute for Economic Policy at Leipzig University. He received his PhD from the University of Angers and is a former Mises Institute research fellow. Earlier this year, Our World in Data celebrated the fact we have
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at The Epoch Times
Today is the 21st anniversary of the horrific event at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and other locations. Around 3,000 people died and more than 400 police officers and firefighters were killed. Reports suggest 25,000 were injured. The news broke after midnight on 12th September in New
If you were anywhere within thousands of miles of what is now the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago, you were in for a bad time. In fact, if you were pretty much anywhere on the North American continent, it was going to get very ugly, very quickly. That
Laurence M. Vance ronpaulinstitute.org The latest empty cliché that one hears out of the mouth of Christians is “Pray for Ukraine”. But do Christians who utter this pious platitude even know what they mean when they say it? I suppose that it is supposed to mean that we should
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. One of the world’s leading progressive political thinkers and journalists died last week. Barbara Ehrenreich was 81
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at The Epoch Times,
As we’ve seen [here], there are plenty of inventions that left their creators with lasting regret. But at least Robert Propst didn’t end up crushed under one of his own office cubicles. Many other inventors weren’t quite so lucky. Here are just some of the inventors who
It’s something of modern fairy-tale: the hardscrabble entrepreneur labouring away in their garage, until, Eureka! a flash of inspiration hits which transforms the world and lets them live happily ever after with a vast fortune. It’s no less a fairy tale for so often being true, from Steve
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary and a young
After WW2 an enterprising building firm called Levitt and Sons developed a system of mass producing houses and creating suburbs in double quick time. The first example of this was Levittown, New York, and the way they did it was to do basically the opposite of the current government and
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The recent publicity over Trevor Mallard’s term as Speaker had me reflect on his 13 predecessors since 1975. By far the most unpopular was Labour’s Gerry Wall, who was a pariah in the new liberal thinking Labour Party of 1984. When Basil Arthur
Some time back, BFD contributor Sir Bob Jones caused quite a ruckus with his column cheekily calling for a “Maori gratitude day” to replace Waitangi day. After all, as Jones pointed out, nearly all Maori alive today owe their very existence to at least some European ancestors. Not to mention
