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How To Pay For All This -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

Americans are stuck with a budgetary conundrum: they seem to be opting for more government, at least in health care, yet they do not seem prepared to pay for it. Their leaders have indulged this fantasy. Mr Obama has foolishly sworn off higher taxes on ...

From ANDREW STUTTAFORD, The Corner,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  The Economist

Its Own Worst Enemy (and Publicist’s Best Friend)

Fresh from the, um, triumph of its attacks on Hallowe’en and Harry Potter (to be fair, the latter was subsequently revoked), the Vatican is now taking aim at New Moon, the latest chapter in the Twilight saga. The film…contained “an explosive mix” of ...

From ANDREW STUTTAFORD, Secular Right,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harry Potter

Creative Destruction: Pretty Much a Good Thing

But here we may read a lesson from the young trees of the forest as they struggle upwards through the benumbing shade of their older rivals. Many succumb on the way, and a few only survive; those few become stronger with every year, they get a larger ...

From ANDREW STUTTAFORD, Secular Right,  20 Nov 2009

Faceless Union Chooses Fake Leadership -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

The EU's oligarchs have now chosen the union's new "president" (actually the president of its council, which will likely prove to be an important distinction) and "foreign minister" (or to give the job its full, magnificently pompous, vaguely ...

From ANDREW STUTTAFORD, The Corner,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: House of Lords

'Death Panels' -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

"Death Panels" is an emotional term (to put it mildly) that, as a practical matter, is not necessarily inaccurate. Here are two stories from right-of-center British newspapers (the Daily Mail is the more tabloidy of the two) about the prescribing (or ...

From ANDREW STUTTAFORD, The Corner,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence,  Patricia Hewitt,  Andy Burnham,  National Health Service

When Oligarchs Squabble -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

European leaders are heading for a fierce battle on Thursday after Germany and France were accused of plotting to bounce their favoured federalist candidate into the post of EU president. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy were revealed to have made a ...

From ANDREW STUTTAFORD, The Corner,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  European Commission,  Guy Verhofstadt,  Radek Sikorski

Japan and its Population 'Crisis' -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

Coping with the fact of Japan's aging (and ultimately shrinking) population will not be without its difficulties (exacerbated in Japan's case by its massive debt overhang), but ultimately it's an opportunity not a crisis, and the Japanese have done ...

From ANDREW STUTTAFORD, The Corner,  18 Nov 2009

Church & State

England has a state church (a fact that–quite reasonably–gives that church, the Church of England, some privileges), but only the one. Now it seems luckless Brits are going to have to put up with this:  John Denham, the communities secretary, said the ...

From ANDREW STUTTAFORD, Secular Right,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Thompson (politician)

Save, America -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

Leaving aside that whole paradox-of-thrift thing (and that's a big "leaving aside" at the moment), I don't think that there can be much doubt that this is a country that needs to reinvent a savings culture — and fairly quickly. In an entertaining piece ...

From ANDREW STUTTAFORD, The Corner,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Carney

More from the Religious Left

In a piece of utterly unremarkable news, the Archbishop of Canterbury argues here for more taxes, attacks “fantasies of unlimited growth”, calls for “sustainability” (defined, presumably, by him and those like him) and once again raises suspicions that ...

From ANDREW STUTTAFORD, Secular Right,  16 Nov 2009

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