Artificial Scare-City
What's driving house prices? Well we know that there's some artificial scarcity driven by the rationing of land for housing is an important contributor. For...
A role for the Opposition – doing things as well as complaining
A couple of entries down I posted a draft Progressive Essay I'm working on. I said the next post would contain another large slab of...
Price discrimination that makes us worse off
Below is an appendix to the first essay I'm working on mentioned in the previous post. It was a note to myself to work something...
Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation
Spiked Online has run quite a lot of articles about animal welfare lately. I remember how disappointed I was thirty odd years ago when I bought...
Gleneagles and the Cartel of Good Intentions
You may nor may not think this is a good colum, but it took me bloody ages to write. It helps to have a single...
A conservative liberal social democrat
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics...