Steve Burston

Academic Biochemist (PhD). Interests: Economics, History, Philosophy, Classical Liberalism, Guitar. Retweeting ≠ agreement. Views are my own. No DMs

[GB News @GBNEWS]

UK debt has grown faster than every nation apart from Botswana

https://t.co/RXIiWK7KQs

[TakingHayekSeriously @FriedrichHayek]

The aggressive and purposive fraud of Harvard’s Judith Shklar in misreporting and falsifying the science and ideas of Friedrich Hayek is unbelievably more egregious and unethical than even Slobodian’s acts of scholarly fraud.

[Shanker Singham @ShankerASingham]

This is of course madness.

[Steve Burston @BurstonSteven]

@Jackkk @LewisHamilton @jayshetty Brilliant driver. Intellectual adolescent.

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

By the standards of the MeToo era and the Brett Kavanaugh saga, which required us to "believe all women," then the Graham Platner situation is fairly cut and dry. Watch closely as partisan political actors reveal themselves as hacks and hypocrites.
https://t.co/eyWwEKxd6W

[Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh]

Francesca Albanese's "moral compass" shot these parents' 16-year-old daughter dead just before it took this photo. Her blood is still visible on her father's hands, who it later killed. Her moral compass livestreamed the whole ordeal. Like Hamas, Albanese is sepsis in human form.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

Key to understanding leftist argumentation is to recognize that they rely on very "generous" synonymous labeling to misrepresent what others say and base accusations thereupon. Such as claiming that "those who know how to use [capital] best" means the same thing as "the rich"...

[Steve Burston @BurstonSteven]

Evidence?

"Trust me bro'"

[John Rad @JohnRad15]

@IndianaModerate No it's a form of slavery, hoosier.

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: "Here is a man [Obama] talking about five different industries and none of which he has the slightest experience.

But because he has these degrees from the places you mentioned, and people have told him how clever he is, he now thinks he can do this.

Intellectuals of the green/environmental movement see themselves as the wise and noble, forcing the rest of us poor dummies to do what's right.

They are driven to power due to their ego, pride, and vanity."

(This was pre-Solyndra.)

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

💥✍️ "When The Facts Change" Post

"Leading economists" finally admit the UK is on course for an IMF bailout ....

Where have they been for the past 12/18 months !?!!

If our careerist, complacent "economics establishment" had started speaking out earlier, clearly warning of the dangers of ever rising borrowing and spending, the UK might now be in a much stronger position ...

Instead, we are on the brink of a proper fiscal meltdown ...

Link to free-to-access "When The Facts Change" post below

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[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

Politico-economic debate in this country is v difficult to take seriously. The only PM who made any attempt to change the path we've been on since 2017 was Truss, & all three main parties define their economic policy as "Not-Truss", & thus have no intention to change anything.+

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

The Independent's "The Way Back" campaign continues to backfire - keep it coming guys! 😉

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Egg producers became less greedy apparently

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

If you think the NY Post and the Mail are the same you should hand back that third-rate journalism degree. Come back to me with as many stones as you like if/when you ever nail down a proper job in journalism.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Not sure what your point is. Yes I write columns for the Daily Mail. Read and learn. I also host a show on Times Radio. And in my career I have been an editor of The Economist, the editor of The Sunday Times, Publisher of The Scotsman Group of Newspapers, Chairman of Sky News, broadcaster for network BBC TV and Radio, Chairman of The Spectator. Oh — and cricket corr. for the Paisley Daily Express!!!
But I see you have an MA from something called the ‘Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’. So I guess that puts me in my place 😜

[King David @Aaron710David]

Eva Spitzer | Died Auschwitz, 1942
1930 – 1942

Eva Spitzer was 12 years old, born 1930 in Vienna, Austria, younger cousin of Anna and Jakob Spitzer.

After the Anschluss in March 1938, Eva's family fled to France and was interned at Camp de Rivesaltes in 1941. According to the Mémorial de la Shoah archives in Paris, children from Rivesaltes were transferred to Drancy in summer 1942 during the Vichy government's intensified deportations of foreign Jews.

Eva was deported with her parents on Convoy 19, 14 August 1942, from Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The convoy manifest, preserved by Serge Klarsfeld, lists 1,000 deportees including 200 children under 13. Only 5 survived.

Eva was murdered on arrival at Auschwitz on 16 August 1942, age 12. Her name appears on the Wall of Names at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris.

We remember Eva Spitzer.
#NeverForget

[Steve Burston @BurstonSteven]

@FT Why is Martin Wolff so afraid of democracy? Is it because he might not get his way?

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

Martin Wolf says "ideally" we should be in "the customs union, EU free trade areas and single market" and make "financial contributions". He says the "big advantage ... is that it would not require another referendum."

Many will agree with him. Watch out.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

A few different things:

- Conservative and moderate retirees have been almost uniformly replaced by faculty on the left.
- Ideological discrimination against non-left viewpoints is rampant in academic hiring - mainly because leftist viewpoint conformity has become a rationing mechanism for scarce jobs amid a PhD overproduction/job-seeker crisis
- Center-left faculty have shifted further to the left. The same poll data also show that self-identified "far-left" faculty are the fastest growing subset
- Leftwing viewpoint hegemony was reinforced from the late 2010s onward by novel job application requirements such as Diversity Statements, which in turn enabled more viewpoint discrimination and accelerated the trend at the end

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Intellectuals keep getting seduced by the idea of a one world government. Even, in a space colonising future, a one solar system government. All of humanity organised under a single polity.

This is a polity you cannot leave. It will forcibly prevent you. Like East Germany.

If people like this ever succeed in shutting down the foot vote in this way, their system had better be perfect or they have condemned us to hell. Of course, they have immense faith in their own intelligence and benevolence. But those wiser than them with a grasp of history don’t share it.