The Philosophical Muser

Millions of public sector workers walked out on Thursday during a massive coordinated strike against what they are calling ‘poverty pay’ . T...

    The BBC's Question Time had a 'Scottish Independence' special last night. Everyone except the megalomaniacal Alex Sal...

Some Muslim men in this country are so imbued with patriarchy and suppression of women that they enforce the wearing of the burqa. In some...

The big reason why bad regulation is dangerous is because regulatory protocols often have a simultaneous effect on everyone, so their impe...

In economics it's always worth looking out for anomalies in society, because one of the fundamentals in economics is that 'peopl...

The economist Don Boudreaux that illustrates a point I've made before on this Blog about how humankind has undergone a progression-explo...

A friend of mine called Bhanumati asked about 'happiness' in a forum to which I contribute. I told her that I think happiness is ...

Apparently tens of thousands of people descended upon central London a few days ago to protest against the government’s austerity measur...

My teenage neighbour knows that good GCSE grades are better than bad ones. She has an idea that will help all students at exam time. Intr...

I've been reading Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner's latest book Think Like A Freak - the third offering in the 'freak...