What is a nation?
In the modern political tradition, patriotism has always been revered. Not only is pride in and devotion to country seen as a positive, but its absence is also often taken as a sign of moral deficiency. Nationalism, on the other hand, is more suspect. The nationalist identifies with the nation and nationalism can manifest as a political ideology, as it did [...]
Labour’s plan for worker’s shares is both naïve and dangerous
A new dangerous and economically illiterate plan has been hatched by the UK's hard-left Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and presented to Labour’s conference in Liverpool: [...]
Baumol’s Disease: the expensive condition afflicting the public sector
The effect known as Baumol’s cost disease describes how salaries in sectors which has experienced no or low productivity gains still follow the general increase in salaries [...]
Socialist in mind, capitalist in deed
Socialism is having a renaissance. After having been totally discredited in the 1980ies, when the Iron Curtain fell and the failure of socialist doctrine was evident for all [...]
Gerard Casey and Libertarian Anarchy
By James O'Gallagher
Gerard Casey, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College in Dublin, Ireland, and an Adjunct Scholar at the Mises Institute, has [...]
Questions for the NHS fanatics
The National health Service is close to the hearts of the British public. As the service celebrated its 70’t birthday this summer, thousands marched in support. The banners [...]
What welfare and food banks tell us about poverty
It is estimated that up to half a million people visit food banks every week, and the left, predictably, is outraged: it is a sign of unacceptable poverty that food banks [...]
What is racism?
It isn’t difficult to be accused of being a racist these days. Fall just marginally foul of political correctness and you can be sure that the wilfully ignorant will use [...]
Despite the intentions, socialism remains the road to serfdom
‘The Road to Serfdom’, Friedrich Hayek’s classic and influential book written during the second World War, lays out how socialism inevitably results in totalitarianism. [...]
If the NHS is so great, why do private hospitals exist?
The raison d’etre for the welfare state is to promote equal outcomes for all citizens. Proponents justify the redistributive state as a means of furthering some arbitrary [...]
How (and how not) to fight the SJWs
A week ago, you probably didn’t know who Sarah Jeong was. Today, however, many in American and beyond have heard about the newly-appointed New York Times editor with a [...]