Well, What Is The Legacy of Enoch’s Rivers Of Blood Speech?
It's 50 years since Enoch Powell made his speech concerning mass immigration. A useful enough time to consider what he said and any lessons...
In A Parallel Universe…
In one world, the problems of 2008 were fixed, the emergency monetary policies were heroic, poverty and unemployment levels are unremarkable, Clinton lost because...
Tinted Glasses
The enemy is seemingly a shapeshifter.
The Left perceive it as a neoliberal free-market capitalist pig, swilling champagne from the hollowed-out skulls of the poor.
The...
Dominic Frisby Thinks Real Wages Haven’t Risen In A Century
Another way to make this point is that Dominic Frisby might want to reconsider his career choice. Economic journalism might not have been the...
A Course of Leeches
Falling ill used to be bloody dangerous.
You'd feel unwell, the doctor would be called, and would invariably prescribe............a course of leeches.
By removing enough of...
A Nicely Planted Google Antitrust Story At Reuters
This is an interesting little example for aficionados of press manipulation. A story about the European Commission's antitrust efforts against Google. Now, I have...
Booze Kills As Badly As Cigarettes Apparently
We have a new study out, in the Lancet no less, telling us that the new, lower, limits for reasonable alcohol consumption are just...
How Conservative Are Today’s Radical Leftists
This is one of those things I'm not sure we should be pointing out. For we've got a large number of Britain's radical leftists...
Thomas Piketty’s Being Entirely Ludicrous About Russian Top Income Shares
This is ludicrous here from Thomas Piketty. No, seriously, this is taking a dump on the very idea of rational economic investigation. Who got...
A Smaller Coke With A Tesco Meal Deal Is The Very Point Of The...
There are complaints that Tesco now offers a smaller bottle of Coke with its meal deal as a result of the sugar tax. This...