The Philosophical Muser

Recently Tim Harford, in an article in the Financial Times , talked about the idea of a 'basic income' - a much vaunted idea in s...

After reading the recent news bulletin about how in Italy it may now be legal in the eyes of the courts to steal food if you're poor ...

At the time of writing we are currently half way through the 2016 FA Cup final - which got me thinking: what a tremendous season the Prem...

  So I guess many of you have seen this doing the rounds - it's a 13-year-old letter from George Osborne calling tuition fees “a ta...

"Education is our right – we should be cutting tuition fees, not raising them” , declares Malia Bouattia in her Guardian column . I...

Thing Number 1 - Racism Don’t know if you picked up on this yesterday, but after the furore surrounding Ken Livingstone’s inappropriat...

I stumbled on an article today that claims poorer couples are more likely to divorce than richer ones. The writer suggested a few reason...

A friend asked me: are trade unions an essential part of a successful economy, or a hindrance to progress? Here was my response to him...

Why do projects nearly always take longer than scheduled? You know the score - you've seen it many times before: some large firm win...

In the penultimate chapter of his book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined , Steven Pinker attempts to bring toget...

Oh heck, where did it start to go wrong again? As I'm sure you can remember, we used to be pretty repressive when it came to personal...

With the recent introduction of the living wage the red socialist in blue conservative clothing chancellor George Osborne made it clear ...

The people that run our country worry me, but the people that want to run our country (Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens) worry me far mor...