The peril of floating ideas
Sometimes UK governments 'float' ideas they say are being considered to assess what the reactions are.
Now we know the status quo on the price of holes in the Albert Hall
Ministers will exempt the holders of Wimbledon debentures from strict new rules on reselling live event tickets.
We call it - UPF is student politics not science
It’s long been difficult to pin anyone down as to what this ultraprocessed food actually is.
Venezuela today
Venezuela's economy has been in a state of total collapse since 2013, resulting in a severe humanitarian crisis, a drastic decline in the standard of living, and a massive population exodus.
Why does everyone want to make the country poorer?
We are richest when the things that we have, that exist, are held, used by, those who value them most - this extends to we are richest when things are employed in their highest value uses.
Watching the All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs)
Some APPGs are open to the criticism that they have effectively been captured by interest groups that do not necessarily reflect wider public opinion or public good.
Why try to align if we’re not going to align?
One of the assertions anbout trade that we’ve really never been able to get our heads around is this idea that in order to be able to trade then everyone must be following the same regulations
Removing risk removes judgement
Those in authority have tried to remove too much risk from people’s lives in the UK. Modern British society has become overly risk-averse, creating a safety culture where individuals are shielded from almost all potential harm.
Impartiality means no one is allowed to disagree
It’s a line in a sprawling document, but it reveals something far larger: a familiar tactic of the anti-abortion movement in which human rights are undermined through the language used to describe them.
Flytipping is caused by landfill tax
Fly-tippers have dumped a "grotesque" mountain of waste in a field in Oxfordshire.