The Philosophical Muser

I've been rather fed up with many of the false assertions made by both sides in the EU Referendum debate. I ended up saying this: ...

Assisted dying is about to be made legal in Canada . Professor Boer, one of the most vociferous objectors to assisted dying, was on telev...

You’ve probably heard of Schrodinger’s immigrant – the person who migrates to Britain to simultaneously steal your job and cause a dra...

First a quick intro While immeasurably worse off than modern times, generally speaking, one good thing in its favour was that in the lat...

I'm soon expecting to see the first of many memes expressing the following: "Every day hundreds of people are dying in x conf...

A new EU law has just come into effect telling tobacco companies they must sell cigarettes with restricted branding as well as containing ...

We often hear about how much richer the top 1% are getting, and we also often hear about how many people in the lower quintiles in the UK...

A recent poll revealed that just over 70% of people in the UK think that immigration increases the likelihood of terrorism. They are rig...

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