SteveBakerFRSA 10 months ago

Climate policy is now so important, everyone seeking to wield or influence power ought to know the terms of debate. Radical candour for Ed Miliband The climate is changing and we should take that seriously. But climate policy is leading us to ruin, often on unscientific foundations: the now implausible high emissions scenario RCP8.5.

Radical candour for Ed Miliband

The climate is changing and we should take that seriously. But climate policy is leading us to ruin, often on unscientific foundations: the now imp...

SteveBakerFRSA 11 months ago

📣I said I oppose wealth taxes. 😡People replied: ‘You’re corrupt. Self-interested. Bought.’” 🤦🏻‍♂️That’s the fundamental attribution error - it’s why people think they are on the moral high ground as they attack viciously. 🔗

Fundamental Attribution Error – The Provocation People

SteveBakerFRSA 11 months ago

A moment of anguish, a crisis of authority The Chancellor's heart-rending distress in the Commons may have strengthened her position but it seems likely Keir Starmer will need another Chancellor as his strategy collapses.

A moment of anguish, a crisis of authority

The Chancellor's heart-rending distress in the Commons may have strengthened her position but it seems likely Keir Starmer will need another Chance...

SteveBakerFRSA 11 months ago

A day of wrath for the Labour Whips Finally, a rebellion they can’t contain through political brute force.

A day of wrath for the Labour Whips

Finally, a rebellion they can’t contain through political brute force.

SteveBakerFRSA 11 months ago

💡It’s simple to own, save, send and spend physical gold digitally, everywhere Mastercard is accepted, with Glint. 📣Download the app:

Buy Gold: Glint Pay | Buy, Save & Spend Physical Gold

Buy gold at the best gold prices, then save or spend gold securely with the Glint App & Glint Mastercard®. Buy gold bullion digitally. Install Gli...

SteveBakerFRSA 11 months ago

New free post: Sound money for the 21st Century I am a sound money maximalist: look to gold and Bitcoin. Gold has been made simple. Here's how to navigate cryptocurrency, that is, emerging synthetic commodity money: it's Bitcoin.

Sound money for the 21st Century

I am a sound money maximalist: look to gold and Bitcoin. Gold has been made simple. Here's how to navigate cryptocurrency, that is, emerging synthe...

SteveBakerFRSA 11 months ago

📻 I’ll be on Times Radio just after 9 to discuss Iran, free speech and other big issues of the day (🥵) 🎧

Times Radio | The Times and The Sunday Times

Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.

SteveBakerFRSA 11 months ago

Growth through credit expansion – a recipe for disaster Politicians and business leaders love cheap credit: low interest rates create a temporary boom. But when driven by credit creation not real saving, the outcome is necessarily a bust.

Growth through credit expansion – a recipe for disaster

Politicians and business leaders love cheap credit: low interest rates create a temporary boom. But when driven by credit creation not real saving,...

SteveBakerFRSA 11 months ago

💡Here’s one to revise and update and translate to TikTok, https://mises.org/library/book/anti-capitalistic-mentality

SteveBakerFRSA 11 months ago

📣Finally, the PM announces an inquiry into grooming gangs.

Immigration, integration and social cohesion

Crime, culture and immigration: we must uphold justice and the principle of equal treatment before the law, reject racism and collective guilt, and...

SteveBakerFRSA 11 months ago

On immigration, integration and social cohesion

Immigration, integration and social cohesion

Crime, culture and immigration: we must uphold justice and the principle of equal treatment before the law, reject racism and collective guilt, and...

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

Why we are Fighting for a Free Future On elite failure, groupthink and the need for a paradigm shift in political and intellectual life

Why we are Fighting for a Free Future

On elite failure, groupthink and the need for a paradigm shift in political and intellectual life

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

Brexit is no longer done. Alas. Starmer's EU "reset" is worse than I thought. Unwinding it will be no-deal Brexit drama all over again.

Brexit is no longer done. Alas.

Starmer's EU "reset" is worse than I thought. Unwinding it will raise no-deal Brexit drama all over again. The horror.

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

Starmer’s EU reset: liberty bound by the EU Leaving the EU meant exiting its political and legal jurisdiction – of course. Starmer now looks set to bind us as a partial rule taker. Northern Ireland's Unionists must beware of supporting him.

Starmer’s EU reset: liberty bound by the EU

Leaving the EU meant exiting its political and legal jurisdiction – of course. Starmer now looks set to bind us as a partial rule taker. Northern...

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

🙋‍♀️I was asked last night at an event why I raise climate scenarios. 😡It’s because they are wrong and dramatically mislead policy makers… 💡Via Roger Pielke Jr

How Climate Change Became Apocalyptic

Part 2: Digging deeper into the IPCC's most consequential error

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

📣What a great day to be refreshing my memory of public choice theory via the primer from the IEA - see the final paragraph 🗽Essential reading

Institute of Economic Affairs

Public Choice - A Primer

'Market failure' is widely used by politicians, journalists and economics teachers. Public Choice Theory is a vital contribution that get...

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

Reform are today enjoying a massive win as voters lose faith in both main parties. This could be seen coming in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis: money needs reform.

Money needs reform

Reform are today enjoying a massive win as voters lose faith in both main parties. This could be seen coming in the aftermath of the Global Financi...

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

Happy Easter!

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

❤️Book Club loved Bastiat 💡You can too: 📖https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Bastiat%20Collection_4.pdf

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

🤷🏻‍♂️Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. 🗽Yes, that’s right: Book Club tomorrow, reading Bastiat. https://mises.org/library/book/bastiat-collection