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IEA Conversations, Chopper’s Brexit Podcast: The last decade was the best in human history
Matt Ridley
I appeared on the Institute of Economic Affairs podcast with Darren Grimes to discuss why we’ve just had the best decade in human history: You can also listen on Apple Podcasts. Chopper’s Brexit Podcast I also appeared on Christopher Hope’s podcast to take questions on that and more. My segment starts at 34:48: […]
Matt Ridley
My Speech in the House of Lords It’s worth reflecting on why the British people distrust our motives. My speech in the House of Lords today, on Brexit (and WD-40): I also had an interview with BrexitCentral this weekend reflecting on the referendum, my “vision for Brexit Britain”, and more. To stay updated, follow me […]
EU can look to 1783 for a way through Brexit
Matt Ridley
Britain’s strategy after losing the War of Independence was generous and helped trade thrive My article from The Times: Frans Timmermans, the vice-president of the European Commission, is singing a more friendly tune to Britain than his fellow commissioners: “We’re not going away and you will always be welcome to come back”. In a similar […]
The BBC, Bob Ward and the climate catastrophists’ attack on dissent
Matt Ridley
My article from Reaction: I was asked to appear on the Today programme on Saturday 28 December by the guest editor, Charles Moore, and made the case that the BBC’s coverage of climate change is unbalanced. Despite a lot of interruption by Nick Robinson I just about got across the point that the BBC uncritically […]
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
Matt Ridley
Little of this made the news, because good news is no news My article from The Spectator: Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 per cent […]
The EU’s absurd risk aversion stifles new ideas
Matt Ridley
Excessive regulation means the health and environmental benefits of new technology are suppressed My article from The Times: With tariffs announced against Brazil and Argentina, and a threat against France, Donald Trump is dragging the world deeper into a damaging trade war. Largely unnoticed, the European Union is also in trouble at the World Trade […]
GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children
Matt Ridley
My recent article in Quillette: Any day now, the government of Bangladesh may become the first country to approve the growing of a variety of yellow rice by farmers known as Golden Rice. If so, this would be a momentous victory in a long and exhausting battle fought by scientists and humanitarians to tackle a huge […]
Matt Ridley
How cheap energy was killed by Green lies and Russian propaganda My article from The Critic The first coffee house in Marseilles opened in 1671, prompting the city’s vintners to recruit a couple of professors at the University of Aix to blacken their new competitor’s reputation. They duly got one of their students to write […]
Why vaping causes harm in the US but not in the UK
Matt Ridley
It pays to legalise but regulate, rather than prohibit My recent article in the Wall Street Journal about the very different experiences of two countries with respect to electronic cigarettes. Why the U.K. Isn’t Having Problems With Vaping The lessons of Prohibition’s failure in the U.S. haven’t been lost on the British. A woman […]
Matt Ridley
Renewables and austerity can’t decarbonise My Sunday Telegraph article on the need for realism about carbon dioxide targets: If the British government declared the abolition of sin by 2050, commentators would be rightly cynical. The announcement last week that Britain will enact a net-zero carbon target for 2050 was instead welcomed, especially by “faith leaders”. […]
