Britain should give the EU £20 billion extra as an act of charity
Matt Ridley
The letter Theresa May should send with the cheque… My Times column on Britain’s “financial settlement” with the European Union: Theresa May reportedly plans to offer about £40 billion of our money in order to bring the European Union to the table to discuss whether it wishes to trade freely with Britain after we leave […]
Matt Ridley
Biotech is urgently needed, economically and environmentally, in Africa My Times column on the urgent need for biotechnology in African agriculture: An even more dangerous foe than Robert Mugabe is stalking Africa. Early last year, a moth caterpillar called the fall armyworm, a native of the Americas, turned up in Nigeria. It has quickly spread […]
Matt Ridley
Local action improves the environment, not more officials My Times column on environmental policy: Michael Gove, the environment secretary, is right to promise higher, not lower, environmental standards once we leave the European Union. Britain has always been a pioneer of environmental policy, and indeed many of our protections pre-date our joining the EU. […]
Supporting wind and solar energy at the expense of the environment
Matt Ridley
A lawsuit reveals a bitter split over renewable energy My Reaction article on the disputes within the green movement: You can always tell when there is a United Nations Climate Conference of the Parties (COP) coming up, because there are any number of carefully timed press releases about how hot it has been or […]
Matt Ridley
We overestimate the impact of innovation in the short term but… My Times column on Amara’s Law: Alongside a great many foolish things that have been said about the future, only one really clever thing stands out. It was a “law” coined by a Stanford University computer scientist and long-time head of the Institute […]
