Saturday, 24 June 2017

Heck, Even Corbyn Has Out-Corbyned Himself This Time

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Jeremy Corbyn has felt buoyed recently - his better than expected election vote-share and the cult of personality that's surrounding ...
Monday, 19 June 2017

I Think There's One Big Flaw In These Sexual Abuse Trials

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Like me, you may have been distracted recently by a little thing called the General Election, as well as terrorist atrocities in our majo...
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Wednesday, 14 June 2017

Politicians Desperately Hope You Never Get To Find Out About Things Like This

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The General Election has been fun and entertaining, but the biggest national problem we face is way bigger than any party politics or distri...
Monday, 12 June 2017

Of Course Tax Provides Less Value Than Spending The Money Yourself

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Ha-Joon Chang's latest pratfall is an attempt to expose the so-called myth that tax is a burden: "The Conservatives are clea...
Thursday, 8 June 2017

The Pollsters Are Missing A Big Trick In Predicting Elections

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I was looking at some of the poll responses from members of the public this morning on the news, and thought to myself, the way pollsters...
Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Food Banks Are Probably A Sign That Things Are Getting Better, Not Worse

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Yesterday at a hustings, Sheryll Murray, the Tory MP for South East Cornwall sparked outrage by saying she was 'pleased we have food ...
Sunday, 4 June 2017

What We Should Hate Most About Election Campaigns

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If you're starting to feel fed up with the electioneering, it's probably because the party leaders are merely churning out litani...
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Thursday, 1 June 2017

A Fairly Good Policy - It Just Needs A Bit Of Tweaking

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Generally I should imagine I share the same kind of views as the guys at the Adam Smith Institute when it comes to land value tax - that ...
Tuesday, 30 May 2017

What Would The World Look Like If These People Told The Truth?

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  In a Blog post the other day I made three principal points about the subject of inequality, namely: 1) That despite always going on...
Monday, 29 May 2017

On The Pursuit Of Mental Excellence

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I was just editing one of my books, and stumbled upon some old scraps I'd written years ago - one of which was this little passage ab...