Jay Maynard posted a link to an advert from Moveon.org that illustrates how our children will have to pay off the government's debt. The trouble with this argument is that it concentrates on the movement of money instead of the movement of resources. This way of thinking can lead to all sorts of mistakes. If the government borrows a trillion dollars, the argument goes, that is a trillion doll...

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, has a family connection to Anne Frank, the Holocaust victim, discloses his brother.

Yesterday Antoine and I visited the Pompidou Centre. Follow the link above for the usual Pompidou Centre pictures. Here's a less usual picture of the thing, in the form of a picture of a model of it that we encountered inside: I was glad to visit this building, if only to go somewhere out of the cold, which has been extreme (and made much worse by the wind) but which may now be abating a...

Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft concealed his involvement in a business that went bust with debts of £19m, the BBC's Panorama alleges.

This is one of the more ridiculous incidents of security theatre that I have read. I know it is preaching to the converted to post such a link to Samizdata, and the increasingly farcical nature of the United States government surprises no one who reads here, but the post deserves to be spread far and wide. Reading Mike Masnick's account of how the knuckleheads providing "security" at the US C...

The Ulster Unionist leader Tom Elliott writes to party members to reassure them about the nature of talks with the DUP.

Move is biggest step towards integrated running of track and trains since British Rail was privatised in the mid-1990s

             Yesterday the Commons was asked to debate the massive Trans European Networks plans. As the super state lumbers on its way, they now set out grand plans to link the cities and states of the new EU empire by rail lines, roads, canals  and broadband networks. They mention subsidiarity in passing, but you

My Progress column this week is about the union link:

A Cabinet minister sold her home close to the proposed High Speed 2 rail link just two months before the Government gave the go-ahead to the controversial project.