People are losing their minds over Mossack Fonseca
Or perhaps we can take this as evidence that The Guardian lost its collectively long ago:
The question is not how to save Port Talbot but whether to
There's an excessive amount of thrashing around being done over the question of Port Talbot and the Tata steelworks there. And there's very few managing to ask the right starting question. Which is not "How will we save Port Talbot" but rather "Should we save Port Talbot?"
We'll chalk this up as a victory for free markets, capitalism and globalisation then
The Lancet tells us, in shocked and disapproving tones, that there are now more fatty lardbuckets on the planet than there are undernourished people. We simply cannot bring ourselves to think of this as being a bad thing. Rather, we consider it to be a massive victory for the economic policies of the last few decades. A victory for capitalism, free markets and globalisation.
A ridiculously silly complaint about the national living wage
We should emphasise here that we are not in favour of Osborne's new national living wage. The correct answer to some people being perceived as having too low an income is not to start price fixing, messing with the market. Instead it is for those who insist that those incomes are too low to put their hands into their own pockets and top up those incomes they perceive as being too low. Yes, it is simply moral that those doing the insisting do the paying.
The TUC has a complaint with reality
The Trades Union Congress has a complaint it would like to make to someone about the reality of our universe. We're not sure they're going to get very far there being no central ruler but they want to complain nonetheless:
There's more to the minimum wage than 1998
One of the difficulties in economics is isolating the effects of particular actions in a very complex world. If we cut income tax this year and next year tax revenues are a little higher, it’s tempting to attribute that to the tax cut.
The difference between France and a liberal nation
We would not say, ourselves, that we are greatly in favour of the burkini and other such manifestations of Islamic prurience. Yet we would, as with people saying things we might not agree with, insist that the populace should be allowed to dress themselves in any such manner that doesn't actually frighten the animals.