The Philosophical Muser

I was interested to stumble upon this page which speaks of a global map of homophobia. Unsurprisingly the two big findings were that sub...

I was just watching some catch-up TV, and the show I was most looking forward to was the Channel 4 documentary about the hitherto 'un...

I doubt I've ever made this known, but in a life that is so abundantly demanding of any interested person's mind, I am highly unl...

Economists are always being accused of trying to reduce everything to money and mathematics. Critics will make assertions such as: "...

I wonder what Gordon "Let's nationalise our oil fields" Brown and Ed "The nefarious multinational oil companies monopo...

David Cameron has launched a scathing attack on the universities of Oxford and Cambridge today for failing to recruit more BME (black ...

  I got a nice comment today on one of my blogs on the misjudged minimum wage law….. F**k you are a d**k – you wish to privilege rich...

Tyler Cowen has perhaps the best analogy I know to illustrate how it is that economists understand the world so much better than anyone el...

Politicians come up with all sorts of initiatives to meddle in the market in ways they think are helping - whether it's price controls...

It seems that in my city there is a popular music pub called The Owl Sanctuary, which has been bought by property developer Richard Pratt ...

  I was looking through some old writing of mine, as you do, and I found this little scribbling I wrote in 1998: T he recent hyste...

In a world in which nonsense is pretty uniformly frowned upon (everyone adheres to this principle, they just disagree on what actually co...

  Best Bar: The Playhouse Best Restaurant : Toss up between Bill's and Roots Best Food: Lamb Moussaka, Creamy mashed pota...

Regular readers of economics will know that despite common myths to the contrary, the reality is there isn't much of an unfair pay ga...

I saw an article today that claimed that nine of the poorest regions in northern Europe are in the UK . Ignoring a bit of dodgy geography...

This picture of the various sizes of quality street tins over the decades seems to have gone viral, with everybody glad to see what they k...

The Women's Equality Party is a party whose main agenda is to use women's lib to reduce inequality and make women a more promine...

I was just catching up on my Guardian reading, and came across this article about George Osborne relying on rising immigration numbers t...

So this happened, and it's one of those rare things that when it does happen it reveals fascinating things about humans. I just joined a...