Month: January 2018

The year is 1928. More than a decade after the Bolsheviks took power, the Soviet state struggles with grain collection from increasingly strained farmers, [...]

Oxfam annual report on global wealth and inequality was out this week, and as has been the case in previous years, it garnered significant media interest, due [...]

Sometimes truth prevails. In a media environment dominated by political correctness, a vehicle for a rare dose of reason was this week provided by the [...]

In Britain today, the state is everywhere; a menacing omnipresence demanding to supervise and control what we do, and tax us whether we do something wrong [...]

The collapse of construction giant Carillion is unfortunate. Shareholders are wiped out, services disrupted, 20,000 jobs are at risk and there will be [...]

The on-going collapse of Venezuela has once again highlighted the failure of socialism as an economic system, with the South American basket case added to the [...]

So today Toby Young resigned from his position at the Office for Students, after a relentless campaign against his appointment from the left of British [...]

The 2nd of January can be a miserable experience. With storm Elanor approaching the UK, this year it was cold and rainy and, to compound the misery for many [...]