Month: January 2019
Is the government always wrong?
For libertarians, the state is the enemy. We are opposed to
government from a philosophical as well as a utilitarian angle, believing that
voluntary [...]
Don’t listen to the left: Let’s celebrate the belief in meritocracy
Where is the revolution? That’s the question the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee asks in her column entitled ‘How the right tricked people into supporting [...]
High corporate pay is a matter for shareholder, not think tanks
Friday the 4th of January was "Fat Cat Friday". According to the High Pay Centre, only three days into the new year the average FTSE 100 chief executive would [...]
No, it wasn’t the unions that gave you the weekend
A persistent myth on the left is that it was the unions that were responsible for workers being given the weekend off. After all, if it wasn’t for the class [...]
The Danish song is still ‘a young blond girl’
‘The Danish song is a young blond girl’, wrote the Danish poet Kai Hoffman in 1924, and two years later his famous compatriot, the composer Carl Nielsen, [...]
Rain dance
In December, Katowice in Poland played host to the UN’s latest
gathering to discuss climate change, the 24th such summit, and it
again ended with talk of [...]
Who’s to blame for high ticket prices?
Another January, another rail fare increase. After a year of disruption,
including the chaos around the introduction of the new time tables, [...]