Author: CreativeDeduction

The Tory manifesto has consigned Thatcherism to history and replaced it with what the press calls Mayism. The new ‘ism’ turns its back on the belief in [...]

The debate about whether some industries are better off in public ownership has been resurrected in the UK after the extreme-left Labour party of Jeremy Corbyn [...]

Minimum wage legislation has become the go-to policy in developed economies when trying to deal with years of sluggish wage growth and rising inequality.  [...]

The UK General Election campaign is fundamentally not very exciting, as the result is a foregone conclusion: the Conservatives will win a significant majority [...]

The Labour Party has published a series of policies leading up to the publication of their manifesto. At least, that’s what is claimed. It is hard to tell if [...]

Patents are government enforced monopolies on ideas. They are supposed to reward and encourage innovation by granting innovators exclusive rights to exploit [...]

Election campaigns are occasions for politicians to act generously with tax payers money, lavishing goods and services on constituencies in return for votes. [...]

The first round of the French presidential election is coming up this Sunday, and as with all elections these days there is some trepidation when it comes to [...]

Last week’s missile attack on the Syrian Shayrat airbase, in response to the alleged chemical attack on Syrian civilians by government troops, marked a [...]

From extra-judicial killings in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines, to gang shootings in the no-go zone neighbourhoods of suburban Chicago, the body-count [...]