Where is the Palestinian Mandela?
A few days after fighting between Hamas and Fatah took a dozen lives and led to the destruction of various Palestinian government buildings, the Fatah-affiliated...
US welfare reform — beyond sticks and sermons
In his 1984 book Losing Ground, Charles Murray argued that welfare hurt poor families by creating incentives for self-defeating behaviour. Last month, New York Mayor...
Your opinions about privacy and blogging
If you want to go fill in a form on the subject for a PhD student - click here and do so. I have....
HIH Royal Commission
I'm reading up for a two day workshop at an fine institution I discovered a few years ago called Cranlana. Named after the Myer Family's...
Equality of opportunity ¢â¬â a follow-up to Don Arthur
The debate started by Don Arthur (Is bad Peter Saunders a neo-conservative?) has been very interesting and helpful (my particular thanks to Don for developing...
Another great win by Topalov
Topalov wins another marvellous game. He played with great precision and energy throughout though it was a more traditional storming of the kingside than the...