Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Here we go again

Britain’s wealthiest areas will face the biggest council tax rises, experts have predicted.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Boomers versus Gen Z

In the UK, different generations have faced vastly different circumstances, technologically, economically, socially, and even environmentally.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Marx, Foucault and Derrida

Marx’s original thesis of the Sociology of Knowledge argues that ideologies (religion, philosophy, law, etc.) are not neutral or ‘objective,’ but instead reflect the material interests and class positions of those who produce them. Marx

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Dissolution of the universities

The case for a "dissolution of the universities," modelled metaphorically on Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, rests on several systemic failures in modern higher education.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

A little help for Liam Byrne here

Mr. Byrne - yea he of “There’s no money left” - is pondering (in committee and therefore ponderously) why the British financial markets don’t fund British business.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Youth exit matters

It’s not just millionaires who are leaving the UK in droves, an ASI-commissioned poll shows that up to a third of young people are considering moving away, or actively preparing to do so.

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