Solving immigration is a question of economics
Across Europe and the USA, immigration is the hottest of political topics. How many immigrants is too many? Who should be allowed in and who should be turned away? How far does our obligation to help refugees actually go? But underlying the often heated discussion lies the fact that many Western economies have become dependent on immigration. In many [...]
Some useful facts about guns and America
American gun culture has again come in for severe criticism after the latest mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. 49 people were killed when 29-year old [...]
Brexit: When to vote with the Left
Only a few days to go and it’s a tight race. Bookmakers still favour a ‘Remain’ vote but ‘Leave’ is edging ahead in the polls. Politicians from all sides are busy [...]
The Fed surprises no-one as it continues to try to fool us
By the time the US Federal Reserve Bank met this earlier this week all expectations of a rate hike had long since evaporated. It was of course the awful jobs report published [...]
Weight loss, wedding cakes and the tyranny of political correctness
As one of his first actions as London Mayor, Sadiq Khan has moved to ban adverts featuring “unrealistic and unhealthy body shapes” on London’s busses and the tube. Under [...]
Free speech: An absolute
It should be clear to most that free speech is an absolute: you either have it or you do not – there is no grey zone. Free speech is not the freedom to say what is not [...]
The unjust circus of the parliamentary select committees
Yesterday, Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley appeared before the House of Commons Business Select Committee to defend himself against allegations around work practices at his [...]
Surprise! US jobs report puts rate hikes on hold
On Friday we had the latest US Jobless Claims report and it surprised to the downside. Significantly. Only 38,000 new jobs were added in May and that was way below [...]
Should the government make iPhones?
How many people think the iPhone would be better if it had been produced by the government? Would you think the battery life would be longer? That there would be more apps? A [...]
The IMF: contrite and confused
The so-called ‘Neo-Liberal’ agenda is taking some flak from one of it’s supposed proponents, with the IMF publishing an article denouncing two of it’s alleged main [...]
Social Immobility and the Welfare Trap
The debate about inequality has recently been framed as the 99% against the reviled 1%. The premise of the debate seems to be that these groups are static. The ‘rich’ are [...]