The Philosophical Muser

It's March 14th, which means it is one year to the day that Tony Benn died. Unfortunately, despite an abundance of honesty and integr...

 This is a series in which I explore a 'back of the envelope'-type cost-benefit analysis of the human causes of, and responses to...

This is a preamble to my forthcoming series on climate change and green polices. I only want to make one key point here - that despite wh...

Interventionist Foreign Policy does throw up some interesting situations, where ‘interesting’ sadly often means ‘bloody awful’. The West ha...

I've been tagged by the very good writer Kris Holt to participate in the Favourite Screen Characters blog hop. It’s a simple, fun hop i...

Libertarians generally subscribe to several maxims. Here are two: 1} That everyone has the right to express their views, providing ...

And by books, I mean works of fiction - there is always going to be the need for new works of non-fiction (for obvious reasons). Whicheve...

This is one of the longer Blog posts I've written (at just under 3500 words) - but if you are the sort of person who a) reads my stuf...

On January 20th people in the UK celebrated the 750th anniversary of the first parliament, calling it Democracy Day . Democracy is far fr...