The Philosophical Muser

The widespread human aversion to correction is one of the most peculiar of all peculiarities. People don't like being shown to be wro...

Oh dear, Donald Trump really doesn't get this economics thing at all. We read today that he has now declared he will use NAFTA negoti...

This is a frequent phenomenon called Gammon's Law (after Max Gammon), which follows a predictable pattern whereby increase in expenditu...

Jeremy Corbyn's New Year speech  was full of  buoyancy about how he's a Prime Minister in waiting because the policies he endorse...

The regularly confused Owen Jones had an article out over Christmas in which he laments what he perceives as the rise of individualis...

A video has been doing the rounds, with the following tagline: In just one generation, Venezuela has gone from being one of the rich...

Many of the big questions people ask are the same questions that they have debated to death for centuries, mostly with no resolution. If ...

This is the first time I've ever let someone else write a Blog post here, but I figured regular readers who are interested in the sor...

Today is December 11th, and the chances are that at some point today you've seen at least one of the many articles doing the rounds ...

I have three radical, brilliant and yet wacky ideas for how to revolutionise our political system. The first one involves ditching consti...

Government Minister Greg Clark, the Secretary for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, has unveiled a 255-page white paper explainin...