With long-time open border advocate Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk having recently declared his plan to suspend the right to asylum for anyone arriving from Belarus, Tim Black considers the internal pressures mounting within the EU to maintain a common border policy. “The Brussels regime is struggling to hold itself together,” he writes in Spiked.
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.
