Brendan O’Neill reports in Spiked on last week’s decision by the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – something O’Neill regards as a direct threat against Israel’s right to defend itself. He also details the crass hypocrisy of Israel’s neighbours who despite having committed demonstrable atrocities and even genocide make a spectacle of demanding “justice”.
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.
