Matt Ridley
I just spent ten days in India, where the cloudless blue above contrasted sharply with the grey sky-lid that greeted me on my return. Living in Britain is like living inside Tupperware, Bill Bryson once said. But it’s not just the weather that is different in the two countries. For all its poverty, India is […]
Britain is in danger of repeating its post-war mistakes
Matt Ridley
My article for Spectator: In search of wisdom about how an officious government reluctantly relaxes its grip after an emergency, I stumbled on a 1948 newsreel clip of Harold Wilson when he was president of the Board of Trade. It’s a glimpse of long-forgotten and brain-boggling complexity in the rationing system. ‘We have taken some […]
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 […]
