Tony Morley

The Golden Era of Flying is Now

Safer, cheaper, faster, further-reaching, more comfortable, and more equitable — there's never been a better time to fly across the country, or between continents. Tony Morley, June 5th, 2025 “The average person would need to take a flight every day for 25,214 years to experience a fatal accident”

E15: “How golden ages really start—and end”, a major CRISPR breakthrough, measles vaccinations have prevented over ninety million deaths, and much more:

Tony Morley, May 28th 2025 Welcome to The Up Wing You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 15, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We’re pro-growth, free markets, progress, techno-optimism, classical liberalism, and

E14: Dragon orbits the poles, global happiness, it's free trade stupid, next generation GLP-1 drugs, and much more:

Tony Morley, April 5th, 2025 It's free trade, stupid. Free trade and globalization, a blessing or a curse? Spoiler alert, it's not just the lesser of two evils, it's a prime mover of global progress and prosperity. — "Is free trade worth the cost?

E13: How to feed the world, the $16,000 pineapple, a titanium heart and much more:

Tony Morley, March 20th 2025 “Both humans and hawks eat chickens — but the more hawks, the fewer chickens; while the more humans, the more chickens.” — Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879 The story of the pineapple is the story of agricultural progress, trade and globalization. Here's the story

E12: Free trade drives progress, and much more:

Tony Morley, March 11th 2025 Free trade drives progress, woolly mice, Blue Ghost sticks the landing, weather forecasting improves and much more: "Free trade gave them cheaper goods, new technologies and access to consumers in other countries. It lifted millions and millions from hunger and poverty." — Johan Norberg,

E11: Gene therapy restores children's hearing in trial; a soil breakthrough could cut fertiliser use, and much more:

Tony Morley, February 27th 2025 Gene Therapy restores children's hearing in trial; soil breakthrough could cut farm fertiliser use, suicide rates continue to fall, promising new therapies for autoimmune diseases, and AI diagnoses for HIV and epilepsy make progress, and much more: You’re reading The Up Wing,

E10: India adds 2.7 MW of solar an hour, maternal mortality falls by 80% in Tanzania, smoking rates plummet in the U.S. and much more:

Tony Morley, February 21st 2025 You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 10, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly-ish. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, global trade, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science and technology.

There has never been a better time in history to love and be loved 💖

Tony Morley, February 14th 2025 You’re reading The Up Wing, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly-ish. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, global trade, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science and technology. Hey team,

U.S. FDA approves breakthrough gene-edited pig kidney xenotransplant trial

Tony Morley, February 14th 2025 A newly approved xenotransplant kidney study could help lay the scientific and commercial groundwork to save tens of thousands of lives for those suffering kidney failure in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever clinical trial for

E9: Nuclear-powered AI, the safest time to fly is now, a game-changing HIV drug, and much more:

Tony Morley, February 12th 2025 You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 9, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly-ish. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, global trade, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science and technology.

E8: Extreme poverty falls, grain yields climb, AI-powered agrochem robots have arrived, and much more

Tony Morley, October 1st, 2024 You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 8, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly-ish. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, global trade, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science and technology.

E7: "Vaccines have reduced infant mortality by 40% over the last 50 years,"

Tony Morley, September 18th, 2024 "Vaccines have reduced infant mortality by 40% over the last 50 years," breakthrough nanoplastic filtering, and much more: Welcome to a rather large edition of The Up Wing, with dozens of stories of progress and breakthroughs from the last fortnight. It’s been