Move over Australia, there’s a new prison colony in town. Once proud of its ability to “Keep Calm and Carry On,” Britain is well on its way to earning the title of “most frightened nation in the world,” says Lionel Shriver in City Journal. As Covid-19 rules and restrictions proliferate, she observes that part of the problem is Britain’s lack of a written constitution or bill of rights.
Javier Milei Makes Fools of the “Experts”
As it began looking like Javier Milei might actually be elected President of Argentina, more than 100 leading international economists warned that this “far-right” political “wrecking ball” would “cause ‘devastation,’ spike inflation, expand poverty, and unemployment.” But as David Harsanyi relates in the Washington Examiner, Milei has tamed inflation, balanced the budget, shrunk the bureaucracy, deregulated the economy, driven down poverty and repaid billions in U.S. loans. And now, Harsanyi notes, Argentina is starting to boom.
