Research We’d Really Like To See – Is Socialism Worse Than Slavery?
I would not wish either slavery or socialism upon another. Both are foul impositions, crushings of human liberty. By socialism here I do mean...
Good Luck With This
From the Times
Hugging new friends will not be possible until a vaccine or treatment for coronavirus has been found, Matt Hancock has said.
The health...
Sigh, The $9 Trillion Corporate Debt Bomb Was The Entire Point Of Quantitative Easing
We have people worrying about the existence of a $9 trillion corporate debt bomb out there. When reality is that the creation of such...
Introducing Gary Stevenson Who Will Soon Become The Left’s Favourite Economist
The Guardian runs a piece by a Gary Stevenson which insists upon an emergency wealth tax. To, well, something but it's very important. Gary...
The Financial Crisis That Swept Hitler To Power
It's necessary to note that a financial crisis did indeed aid Hitler in gaining power. But it wasn't the financial crisis most of us...
The Lie In The UN Rapporteur’s UK Poverty Report
Philip Alston is the UN Special Rapporteur on poverty. He's been around the UK telling all how terrible poverty is here.
It's not, obviously, as...
Yes, You’re Right, Owen Jones Is Ignorant Of The World
That Owen Jones is a fine propagandist, pamphlet writer, is clearly and obviously true. The sadness is that this talent, skill, seems unsullied by...
The Flexible Right To Buy? – Thatchers Vision?
• UK has the second-largest social housing sector in the EU, and over half of tenants in the sector want to own their own...
Logical Fallacy: Argumentum Ad Hominem or Zero Sum Game
As the author of a book on logical fallacies, I am often asked what is the most common fallacy committed by politician and political...
Complete Nonsense From Shelter – Britain Does Not Have 320,000 Homeless
Shelter has a very annoying indeed habit of claiming vast numbers - 320,000 today - of homeless people when in fact this is the...