In Spiked, Julie Burchill deconstructs the elite hypocrisy that aims to “re-wild” farmland, outlaw roadbuilding, halt economic development and confine the citizenry to “15-minute” neighbourhoods, rendering the world safe for the billionaire class and their enablers to roam the world at will by private jet.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.