Government Regulation Makes Things More Expensive And Worse
You know the idea bandied about. That everything must be regulated. For how can anyone know what they may make unless the bureaucrats tell...
There Is A Point At Which We Rise Up – Should Rise Up. Probably...
A report from the United States, one of the places less affected - no, do not laugh, this is true, less affected - with...
The BBC Is Still Irrelevant
From our Swindon correspondent:
From the Guardian
But we have arrived abruptly in a different era. From our new perspective, adrift in the most significant public health...
The IFS And Council Tax
There's an assumption buried in this idea:
More than 10m households would benefit from lower council tax bills if the government reformed the “arbitrary and...
The Solution To Coronavirus Stimulus
Imagine that the coronavirus blows some grand old hole in the economy. What should be done about it?
Thus we have both theory and...
Why The Earl Of Shrewsbury Is Wrong About Female Inheritance
On the face of it this looks like a welcome change tin modern society toward greater gender parity.
Of course, it's still a damn fool...
The Reason Listed Buildings Fall Apart
From Our Swindon Correspondent. The reason listed buildings fall apart is because they're listed, see?
From The Guardian
Griff Rhys Jones, the president of the Victorian Society,...
Well Of Course The NHS Doesn’t Have Enough Beds For Coronavirus
A little sly dig here at the fact that the NHS doesn't have enough beds to deal with the coronavirus:
Patients with 'mild' coronavirus told...
There’s No Idea So Bonkers That Some Government, Somewhere, Won’t Try It
Sure and the 20th century provides us with so much evidence of this point, that there's no idea so bonkers that some government, somewhere,...
Follow the Money
From our Swindon correspondent:
From the Guardian
She is Britain’s best known classicist, a Cambridge don with formidable intellect and a knack for getting people interested...