The Philosophical Muser

Something I've been hearing rather too much of recently - from politicians and from political commentators - is that the increasing n...

I just read this lament in The Guardian about how the UK and the Eurozone are 'suffering' from a steady manufacturing slowdown. ...

The ludicrously misinformed Tory MP (and former GP) Sarah Wollaston is at it again. I had a few choice words to say about her in a recent ...

"Pessimism won’t do. We need an energy revolution." No, no, we do not. The Guardian's Zoe Williams is worried about h...

Labour MP Austin Mitchell has made a tit of himself recently with some ill-conceived remarks about women in Parliament . However, despite...

Robert Frank is generally considered to be one of the smartest economists in America . In an essay on consequentialism, however, he seemed...

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...