Ed West

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Ed West |Ross Clark |Daniel McCarthy

A “black swan event”, as defined by the risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2007, is a surprise occurrence that has a major impact on the global financial system and is rationalized after the fact as something that ought to have been expected all along. The 9/11 terror attacks are one example, the Covid pandemic another – shocks that rocked the world and made us wonder if freedom works.

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Ed West |Daniel McCarthy |Curtis Yarvin |Aidan McLaughlin

Itry to avoid expressing strong opinions on foreign party politics, because I enjoy the luxury of not having to. From an outside perspective, American politics seems dominated by two quite extreme fringes, the only difference being that the mad things believed by Democrats tend to be aped by British elites, and therefore have an impact on our everyday lives here.

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Ed West

I try to avoid expressing strong opinions on foreign party politics, because I enjoy the luxury of not having to. From an outside perspective, American politics seems dominated by two quite extreme fringes, the only difference being that the mad things believed by Democrats tend to be aped by British elites, and therefore have an impact on our everyday lives here.

2 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Ed West

I try to avoid expressing strong opinions on foreign party politics, because I enjoy the luxury of not having to. From an outside perspective, American politics seems dominated by two quite extreme fringes, the only difference being that the mad things believed by Democrats tend to be aped by British elites, and therefore have an impact on our everyday lives here.

2 weeks ago | edwest.co.uk | Ed West

When my children were all still in primary school I gave them the one-chocolate test, better known as the ‘ultimatum game’. They were offered the choice of either being given one piece of chocolate, and their siblings getting two - or none of them having any. They all chose communism, I’m afraid to say, but they were young and a sense of ‘fairness’ is inherent in all of us. Many people would rather go without than allow their neighbours to become richer than them.