The Philosophical Muser

Rudyard Kipling once said “What do they know of England, who only England know?” , and what he meant was, not only do you not know much o...

Earlier on I heard a green bloke on the radio say that the great thing about green innovation is that the more efficient we become at us...

Here's an interesting statistic, which may also prove to be an interesting test of your intuition. A recent-ish YouGov survey asked UK ...

There is a lot of talk in our country about how London is so markedly different from every other city in England that it's almost l...

When I was a professional gambler I knew many systems, strategies and tricks to which the non-gambler's naked eye was not accustomed....

Politics has changed a lot over the centuries. The dominant form of politics used to be loosely based on a Christian flavoured notion of ...

It was the name of the blog that first grabbed my attention on a page full of links - it leapt out at me: " Capitalism Creates Pove...

Combating racism is one of the most essential things humans do, and like every case of seeking the common good, it is a work in progress....

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...