Friday, 22 July 2016

NHS Shocks & Stocks

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This week we saw confirmation in the media of something that those of us with market-friendly sexual charisma have been envisioning for a...
Thursday, 21 July 2016

The Unintended Consequences Of Trying To Help Tenants

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New London mayor and arch-socialist Sadiq Khan is attempting to shore up his solutions to the London housing problem by re-loading his...
Wednesday, 20 July 2016

It Doesn't Matter Who Said It, Neither Party Believes In It Or Cares About It

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Theresa May, our new Prime Minister, has decided to accompany her opening few days in office with the Ed Miliband-esque slogan of a syste...
Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Oops! Someone Doesn't Quite Get This Human Progress Thing

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Oh dear! I'm afraid this bit of research from the Pew Research Centre, telling us that for most people there has been stagnation in ...
Monday, 18 July 2016

The Philosophical Muser Goes Nuclear

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MPs are set to decide on whether to renew Britain 's nuclear weapons program (Trident) in a Commons vote. Jeremy Corbyn, the Green Pa...
Wednesday, 13 July 2016

Let's Face It, We're A Multi-Class Society Now

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Economic growth has meant that in the developed world there are now more classes of people. Take Britain and America as prime cases in ...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Gambler's Crime

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There was an article in the Express yesterday talking about how absurd it is that criminals are receiving up to 10 suspended sentences b...
Sunday, 10 July 2016

Why There Are Too Many Sports Participants In The World

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What do sugar, salt, rapists and breast cancer have in common? Answer: You can have too much of all of them, but in different degrees. An...
Saturday, 9 July 2016

Hey, Why Has No One Asked The Most Important Question About Our Next Prime Minister?

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The most pressing concern for me about the Leadsom/May battle is not about whether motherhood matters in being a good Prime Minister (it d...
Friday, 8 July 2016

Corbyn Needs To Learn The Contrast Between Two Very Different Words

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On PMQs this Wednesday just gone Jeremy Corbyn asserted, as he has repeatedly before, that it's about time this government 'Inves...
Thursday, 7 July 2016

Chilcot's Philosophical Conundrum

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Regarding the Chilcot report, the following philosophical point looms large in my mind. If there were actually weapons of mass destructi...
Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Deporting UK-Based EU Migrants After Brexit Would Be As Foolish As Scratching Your Car Because You Don't Like How Others Are Driving

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Theresa May is under fire for not unequivocally ruling out deporting EU migrants after Brexit, and the UK government believes it would ...
Monday, 4 July 2016

The Dangers Of The Past's Prologue

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Although media headlines are completely dominated at the moment by the EU referendum result, we still shouldn't lose sight of the fac...
Saturday, 2 July 2016

Just Like The Kernel Of Wheat In Jesus' Parable, The Dead Seeds Of The EU Must Be Sown Into The Earth

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Today, thousands of people with scant regard for democracy are marching through London to protest against the democratically voted for r...
Friday, 1 July 2016

Why Most Party Leaders Are Probably More Extreme Than The Average MP In Their Party

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Today I stumbled upon a very interesting paper , in which the author Andreas Murr from the University of Oxford predicts that according t...