The Philosophical Muser

In response to my recent blog on evolutionary emergence and the fecundity of bottom up localised decisions, a friend, and excellent blogg...

Vegans have a fundamental problem – it is impossible to live strictly according to their principles because the sanctity of living things...

Yesterday lunchtime on Radio 2 a couple of men (I didn’t catch their names) were debating whether families are safer in their vehicle if ...

I saw recently that the Adam Smith Institute, to whose Blog I contribute from time to time, has disassociated itself from the term 'l...

In a recent blog post I wrote about how our individual market decisions are what create wealthy people, and as a side-effect, in-country...

In just about every economy I know of, there are numerous state-mandated distortions going on whereby normal market signals are being ske...

Hey, my dear reader, I care about you and feel I know you quite well. Let me tell you some of your secrets. You have a great need for oth...

The polls keep drastically confounding expectations, and lots of people want to know what's going on. How can something as relatively ...

I published the following article on the Adam Smith Institute blog yesterday - but there is more to add at the bottom: In the wake of t...