Britain’s Liberal Technocratic Recession
13 November 2022
by Noah Carl
Woke is finally catching up with the sciences as mathematicians in British universities are told to "decolonise" the curriculum by downgrading the status of objective rational knowledge – quite literally insane.
Supreme Court judges have been blamed for giving the green light to eco-zealot mayhem as Just Stop Oil exploit an extraordinary 2021 legal ruling that protests can be a "lawful excuse" to block roads.
Spain, Croatia and even Italy have ended their Covid-era travel restrictions, but the USA is an international outlier in continuing to require visitors to be vaccinated, despite no evidence this is reducing spread.
Britain is facing its longest recession since records began. The root cause is liberal technocratic hubris – the belief that there are straightforward "solutions" to pandemics, climate change and interstate conflict.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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