So What Really Caused Grenfell Then?
The report on the Grenfell Tower fire is about to come out. At which point, who is to blame?
Grenfell Tower: ‘The fire was no...
Memo To Phillip Inman – 1.25% Of The Economy Isn’t A Solution
Phillip Inman in The Observer tells us that it's rent that's the problem. We can't have all those nice things - infrastructure, modern broadband,...
Universal Credit – Giving Money To People Should Be Easy, Right?
A torrid tale about Universal Credit.
The lady in question, Portuguese by nationality, is here in the UK. She worked on the streets -...
The Idiocy Of Banning First Class Train Carriages
If only there were people capable of joined up, adult, thinking when they decide they'd like to come and rule us. There being two...
A Corollary Of Parkinson’s Law
Parkinson's Law is of course that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Corollaries of this include that's why you should...
Danielle John Hasn’t Been Sanctioned 229 Days For Missing A Meeting
The Observer gives us the tragic tale of benefits sanctions in Britain today. The bastards, the bastards:
Last week, a woman’s sanction letter from...
Should Dame Margaret, Lady Hodge, Be Looking Over Her Shoulder?
Yvonne Roberts gives us the latest proof that the government is not your friend. For, again, we see that the biggest cause of having...
Nutters Should Have The Bennies – Criminals Not
It's difficult to work out what the actual complaint here is:
Killers, kidnappers and other violent offenders are claiming thousands of pounds in state...
How Excellent That Food Banks Are Solving Child Hunger
Sure, we can wonder how much the rise in the use of food banks is for blindingly obvious reasons - free things are desired...
Because Sadiq Khan Is An Economic Illiterate
Sadiq Khan's new housing proposal for London includes this passage:
Why rent control?
Because Sadiq Khan is, as my colleagues at the Adam Smith Institute have...