Those who adhere to the Gold Standard, nicknamed gold bugs, do so because the quantity of gold cannot be manipulated by politicians.

The climate change problem always was weaning industrial society off fossil fuels. Do that and - as the IPCC itself points out - we’re done.

There is a general impression, whether true or not, that the UK is now a fractured society with widespread discourtesy, too easy a resort to casual violence, to theft (including shoplifting) and a readiness to feel insulted and abused by any form of criticism.

That headline being, roughly, the message coming from Grace Blakeley. Big corporations plan things so the state can too - it is, after all, just fewer planners, right?

The ASI team have been comparing notes about what they notice is slower service in pubs and restaurants.

Rebecca Renard-Wilson has stopped shopping at Target and all things Amazon including Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh.

UK newspapers and media outlets are full of lists.

One of the problems - one, note - this country faces is the marginal tax and benefits withdrawal rate faced as anyone works their way up out of poverty.

One of those rallying cries which we don’t think would gain all that much support if people understood it.

We at the Adam Smith Institute are saddened by the death of Edwin J Feulner Jr, one of the leading intellectual organisers behind America’s conservative movement, who led the Heritage Foundation for 37 years.

Poe’s Law: without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

Tax them, tax them over there to pay for what we want!