The Philosophical Muser

Oh ah, finally the ill-conceived ‘living wage’ pressures being applied on businesses have brought about the outcome people like me keep ...

Consider these 4 statements, and which ones are good positions to hold: 1) Everyone has a right to be offended 2) Everyone has a ri...

From what I can see from a brief perusal, Russell Brand really is an incompetent buffoon whenever he pontificates about economics and p...

Forbes tries to shock us with the news (from an Oxfam report) that The 85 Richest People In The World Have As Much Wealth As The 3.5 Bill...

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...