- “Police called in over abusive reaction to council’s ‘climate lockdown’ traffic scheme” – Draconian plans to divide Oxford residents into six climate zones have led to council chiefs calling in the police over “extreme abuse”, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘It’ll be like Cold War Berlin’: Council’s plan to carve up city into zones sparks backlash” – Residents and tourists in Canterbury will face fines for travelling across boundaries from one area to another under the proposals, and the backlash has already begun, the Telegraph reports.
- “The shabby dishonesty of Matt Hancock’s ‘diaries’” –It’s a memoir, not a diary, and it should be honest about that, says Sam Leith in the Spectator.
- “I’m 22 and the Covid vaccine has taken my life from me” – Charlotte Sinclair writes for TCW of the extreme grief she experiences for her old self now that the vaccine has left her debilitated with a serious heart condition.
- “Ricochet Replay with Jay Bhattacharya 120922” – Watch Dr. Jay Bhattacharya react to the ‘Twitter files’ revelation that he was among those being throttled because of his co-authorship of the Great Barrington Declaration.
- “How should believers in small government operate in an authoritarian age?” – Watch Dan Hannan’s recent speech to Reasoned.
- “Elton John: Why not call for government authorities to engage in a discussion?” – Steve Kirsch responds to Elton John’s statement that he is leaving Twitter over its failure to censor Covid ‘misinformation’.
- “John Kerry gets an easy ride from the climate establishment” – Ross Clark in the Spectator asks why the Tories, who have made a legally binding commitment to Net Zero, get a much harder time of it than John Kerry, whose Government has not made such a commitment.
- “Young people’s fear of climate change is endangering our future” – Gen Z are so petrified, they don’t want to have children of their own, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Greggs introduces pronoun badges for staff” – The bakery chain is the latest business to offer workers the option to wear pronoun labels, the Telegraph reports.
- “The biggest scandal in human history is emerging from the Twitter files, and nobody’s connected the dots yet” – Jeff Childers on Coffee & Covid says the biggest scandal in the Twitter files is that Twitter did so little to censor or suppress child sexual exploitation.
- “The ‘Twitter Files’ are damning for U.S. agencies” – Charles Lipson in the Spectator says we need to know everyone who was involved on the Government side of this shameful exercise.
- “It’s actively undermining and damaging the institutions it’s being spent on” – Watch university professor Dr. James Orr reacts to a new report which reveals the higher education sector is spending £30 million on diversity.
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Using them as a bribe to curry favor I’ll wager! Not what Germany intended!
Knuckle draggers!
The clowns who organised this handover, the current SPD/Greens/FDP government of Germany, doubtlessly never intended anything here but were -as usual – acting under orders of their US superiors.
“A public good has thus become private property.”
Tou mean: Public property has thus become private property.
Public Good (plural, Public Goods) has a specific meaning in economics. It has nothing to do with ownership of its virtue. A Public Good is non-excludable and non-rivalrous. An example is street lighting. Nobody can be excluded from using it; if more people ‘use’ it, it doesn’t mean each gets less. It cannot be controlled/rationed by pricing. This means it is difficult for private enterprise to supply it and make a profit, and is used to justify State provision.
The opposite is Private Good, which is excludable and rivalrous. Example: electricity. A consumer can be excluded by switching off the current; the more people using it means less available for each. It can be controlled/rationed by pricing. A profitable business can be established.
‘Europeans paid for the slaves with brass rings that became the raw material for the bronzes.’
So the slaves were sold by their own kings and chiefs. Should the Benin Bronzes then be sold by the Nigerians and the money paid in reparations to the descendants of these slaves in the US and elsewhere?
In fact shouldn’t all the Countries of Africa be paying reparations?
The President didn’t return Benin’s empire to the Oba as the rightful owner, then…
A glance at the President’s name gives a clue about how bothered about non-Islamic artifacts he is likely to be.
Check out the record of the Taliban & Isis when dealing with key cultural artifacts from Afghanistan to Syria.
Even the wannabe little Caliph in Ankara has converted the Haghia Sophia, the great Cathedral of Byzantium, back to being a mosque.
Note also the Benin bronzes previously returned to Nigeria in decades past, that have subsequently shown up in the New York art market.
Great job Archbishop Welby and all his woke chums.