Should Doctors Have Special Legal Privileges When They Kill People?
It's an interesting question, should the law for doctors who kill patients be different from the law for everyone else? The answer is no,...
Aditya Chakrabortty Is A Conservative Free Marketeer Now?
These days The Guardian is an odd place to be finding conservative free marketeers. Yet that’s what we do find in Aditya Chakrabortty’s series...
We’ve No Carbon Tax Because Environmentalists Don’t Grok Economics
That a carbon tax is the solution to climate change is one of those things generally and widely agreed among those who have studied...
Just How Many Freeloaders Were There In Grenfell Tower?
That a block of flats goes up in flames, many burnt to death as it does so, is not something to celebrate. Yet that...
The Case for Winding up Public Health England
Some of what Public Health England does is worthwhile. This includes protecting us from public health hazards, and preparing for and acting upon public...
The Colonies: Garbage In, Massacres Out
The Florida grade-school massacre, and the Connecticut one, and the one that happens next, are not a deviation from the basic design of our...
Shock! Horror! Government Not Good At Spending Money On Council Housing!
There is much to enjoy in this little story about budgets for council housing. For while all bien pensant non-thinkers are loudly screaming that...
Cascading Wage Failure
There are lots of people out there every day, working hard to support their families, and through no fault of their own they get...
How We’ve Progressed Depends Upon What We Define As Progress
So, is the world getting better? Stephen Pinker has just released the latest of his tomes insisting that it is. We've also, as he...
How Excellent, No Tax On Paper Coffee Cups
I lambaste government often enough for doing stupid things so I should also praise when there's something sensible on the cards. As with this,...