The Philosophical Muser

England captain Steven Gerrard thinks reducing the number of foreign players in the Premier League will make the league better, and enha...

I just got around to watching a three part BBC programme I've recorded called The Men Who Made Us Spend. The general contention was t...

With an upcoming wedding and honeymoon, I recently bought some extra annual leave from my place of work. I valued the extra time more tha...

The Guardian really does have some disingenuous half-wits writing for it. Here we have Patrick Collinson ranting about rail price hikes ...

In addition to my Blog on happiness a few weeks ago - here is an interesting auxiliary thought I had: what would we choose when the offe...

I didn’t plan on writing a Blog post this lunchtime, so let’s make it a quickie. Just now I’ve been listening to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2...

Paul Krugman has one of the most prestigious column spaces in the world - he writes the principal economics pieces in the New York Times. B...

Ban supersized foods, says health committee chairman . This is the kind of headline that makes people like me shudder with the spect...

Every now and then, albeit not often, someone tells me I should check out George Monbiot’s writing. Apparently, according to the green/eco...

After posting my NHS blog and my smoking blog to demonstrate the brilliance of the free market, I'll finish what has turned out to ...

I was interested to hear a man giving feedback on my Philosophical Muser Blog recently - he said "It’s probably fair to comment tha...

With the recently announced improved state of the British economy, the reliably terrific Jeremy Paxman, in one of his last great mome...

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...