Those prone to attributing Britain’s rising Jew-hatred to Middle East violence involving Israel should think again, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked. The latest trigger for – always-lurking – anti-Semitism, O’Neill shows, comes from the vile alliance between Islamism and progressivism, particularly the DEI ideology that has pervaded the UK’s institutions and, increasingly, penetrated regular bourgeois society.
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.
