UK voters will go to the polls in the next 12 months. Conservatives have held office since 2010, but Simon Heffer doubts they’ll convince voters one more time. Writing in The New Criterion, Heffer asserts that a decade-plus of incompetence and mostly self-inflicted wounds have disgusted Brits of all stripes. And now come the engineers of Brexit – Nigel Farage and the Reform Party – to nail the lid on the Conservative coffin.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.
