The Economist

Back in December, The Economist published a poll that found 20% of young Americans think the holocaust is a myth. New research shows this result was due to poor methodology. The true figure is closer to 3%.
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Kit Knightly Last week, a senior member of Parliament for the UK’s Labour Party went on television demanding the UK – maybe even the entire world – be on a “war-like footing” to combat climate change. Speaking on the BBC’s flagship political magazine Newsnight, Barry Gardiner MP argued for unity of purpose against climate change’s …

The Economist has estimated that, over the winter, high energy prices led to 68,000 excess deaths in Europe. The rise in energy prices was partly due to Europe's self-imposed sanctions on Russian energy.
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UPDATE 19/03/21 – Tanzania’s vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been officially sworn in as the new President. Details. UPDATE 20/03/21 – The new President is already being seen in public wearing a mask. Details. After weeks of being out of the public eye, Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died age 61, according to the country’s …

Belarus had their presidential election last Sunday, and the incumbent Alexandr Lukashenko apparently won. This was evidently not supposed to happen, or in some other way counter to the Western world’s grand plan – because now we have a little colour revolution happening.

By Peter Andrews | RT | March 31, 2020

Just last year, the US topped a list of the countries best equipped to deal with a pandemic. But the experts have egg on their face as America spirals into Covid-19 catastrophe. What went wrong?

In a warm office in Berlin’s trendy Kreuzberg district, Charlemagne is trying to persuade Yanis Varoufakis that he is a politician. “It’s a necessity. I really dislike running and asking people for votes,” protests the Greek economist when asked about European Spring, his new transnational political party. Does he think of himself as a politician? “No. The moment I do, shoot me.” Apparently inadvertently, Mr Varoufakis won his seat in the Greek parliament in 2015, became finance minister, took on the European economic establishment and failed.

By Bjørn Lomborg · August 6 2018 Could we please stop with the misleading fire stories? The Economist cover story, like so many other stories these last weeks, claim that forest fires are exceptional and record-breaking: “EARTH is smoldering. From Seattle to Siberia this summer, flames have consumed swathes of the northern hemisphere” This is […]

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Marx has prompted The Economist to devote an article on Marx in its issue of May 5, 2018. Characteristically titled, “Reconsidering Marx. Second time farce. Two hundred years after his birth, Marx remains surprisingly relevant”!1 The article combines recognition that Marx was a genius with reactionary slandering that he was, after all, an evil genius and without him the world would certainly had been much better.

By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | September 11, 2017 https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/906739904788430848 The Economist has been running this video on Twitter, with the usual fraudulent claims. The film uses two examples: Hurricane Harvey Bangladesh flooding. They forget to mention that Texas has had even more intensive storms in the past, notably […]