Idiot Headline Of The Day – Guardianisation Of The Observer Continues apace
One of the little battles going on in the British newspaper business is within The Guardian group. They've owned The Observer for some time...
British Summer Time and the Impossibility of Planning an Economy
As we can all observe these days there's one of those regular upsurges in the idea that we can plan our way to economic...
The Propensity To Truck And Barter Is What Makes Us Human
Adam Smith told us that humans have a "certain propensity" to "truck, barter and exchange one thing for another." A more modern reading of...
Trump’s New Prohibition
President Trump really did issue an Executive Order, nearly a year ago, that all agencies were to use their discretion under the law in...
Facebook’s Dangerously Political Ban Over Trump And Brexit
Facebook has banned two data analysis firms over what they claim are breaches of the terms and conditions. That may be entirely correct by...
Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Have A Clue About Poverty, Does He?
If Bernie Sanders here were just repeating useful political rhetoric we might cut him some slack - lying in pursuit of a political goal...
India’s Audi Example – It’s Consumers Who Pay Import Taxes And Tariffs
It's a common enough misconception out there that when we slap taxes, duties and tariffs upon imports then it's those dastardly foreigners who lose...
The EHRCs Report Into Child Poverty Is More Of The Obvious Obviousness
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has released it's report into how the changes in welfare and benefits are going to influence poverty, especially...
Those Gold Bars Littering A Russian Runway
A fun little story about Russian aviation - how a shipment of gold and silver bars ended up littering the runway. That people are...
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