The Philosophical Muser

Since increasing my readership over the past couple of years, through a growing following, but also in no small part due to high(er) prof...

In this morning's papers is the news that an extreme Icelandic party called the Pirate party looks set to form the next government. W...

A defining characteristic of quite a few public personalities is that they latch on to partial truths but then take to hyperbole or mental ...

Apart from as a token term, there isn't really any such thing as 'luck' in the world. Of course we ascribe fortune to events...

After declaring that the government she leads will always be driven by "the interests of the many ordinary families for whom life is...

Worried about a potential nose-diving economy that is very unlikely to materialise (and long-term almost certainly won't), the quasi-g...

Today the Wall Street Journal has pointed us to lots of research to show why there is no empirical evidence for Thomas Piketty’s highly ...

In terms of how intelligence is distributed across the nation, people often assume a normal distribution - the familiar Gaussian bell curv...

The Labour Party is in the biggest mess in its history, which is particularly noteworthy given that we are only two decades on from argua...

What's the best essay ever written? Let me ask you to pretend there is such a thing. I like George Orwell's Politics and the Engli...