The Philosophical Muser

  The extreme left and extreme right who continue to dominate the headlines may be extremely opposed in viewpoints, but they are highly alik...

Some people are getting agitated and hostile at the pumps. Now, I know the cost of living pressures are tough, and I sympathise. But what we...

Criticisms of one misjudged thing often mirror the properties of criticisms for other misjudged things. Think of the critique of socialism a...

  The world can be split into 3 groups of people   Those who know less than they need to. Those who know about as much as they need to. Thos...

When it comes to goods and services in the free market, four things will happen:  1) Increase in Supply 2) Decrease in Supply ...

Steelmanning : the practice of articulating an opponent's argument in its strongest, most persuasive form, to ensure a fair and thorough...

  As I argued a few years ago in my blog about the Easterlin Paradox , individual happiness is fairly hard to measure, and global happiness ...

As I was cycling through the city earlier this evening, I felt my regular lament at the ugly sight of graffiti tagging that spoils so many b...

Here’s the latest halfwit cult of narcissistic entitlement; little upstarts who call themselves Take Power Back - who have decided that the...

Scientific and technological progress is accelerating so quickly that I regularly reassure my readers that the coming decades will bring unp...

  I think Jimmy McGovern’s The Street is one of the best British TV dramas ever. One of the many memorable episodes, like the one I rewatch...

  “God opposes the proud but shows favour to the humble.” (Proverbs 3:34, James 4:6 and 1 Peter 5:5) From my experience, humility is one o...

  I had a conversation once with someone who is pro-abortion, that had a middle that went something like this: Pro-abortion person: But wh...

  If you’ve dipped into ancient Christian philosophy, you might have come across Boethius’ idea of how eternity is the simultaneous and comp...

  We keep hearing about increased anxiety in young people, and an increase in perceived victimhood. This might not be so strange except for ...