Month: March 2018
Venezuela’s misery in one statistic
Norway is officially the worlds happiest country according to the World Happiness Report 2017, released last week. The Norwegians replace fellow Nordics the [...]
Is the left antisemitic?
Jeremy Corbyn has had a rough couple of weeks. After the Salisbury poisoning he failed to condemn Russia, the following week he was forced to fire Owen Smith [...]
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 [...]
A libertarian’s approach to the death penalty
The death penalty has been abolished in all but one western country: The United States still practices it (in 31 of the 50 states), and since the Supreme Court [...]
Hat-gate and Corbyn’s unsavoury sympathies
Jeremy Corbyn’s response to the poisoning of a Russian former double agent on British soil has once again put the spotlight on the Labour leader’s [...]
South Africa’s radical land reforms – and lessons for the British electorate
On 15th February Cyril Ramaphosa became the 5th President of South Africa since the fall of Apartheid in 1994. His ascent to the top job was a fait accompli [...]
Is Trump right? Do tax cuts increase pay?
In the immediate aftermath of the passing of the Trump tax reform, the ‘Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’, in December 2017, headlines told of companies bestowing pay [...]
Does the trade deficit matter?
With the threat of trade war in the air, the trade balance is once again getting a lot of attention. US president Donald Trump wants trade barriers to [...]
Women’s pay: You can’t close a gap that doesn’t exist
This year new legislation comes into effect, which requires employers with 250 or more employees to publish statutory calculations showing the gap in pay [...]