Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

The road to wealth

To make people in the UK wealthier, the government would need to balance short-term growth stimulus with long-term productivity improvements.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

No news is good news

Many sources point to a pronounced decline, especially among younger people, in the UK’s news consumption since 2015.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Better without lockdowns

 As more data emerges about the impact of the Covid pandemic and its associated lockdowns, it becomes clearer that the UK lockdown, which had huge costs to the economy, to education, to civil liberties and to mental health, had little impact on mortality.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Democracy is also the Tyranny of the Majority

Walking down their local high streets, people in Britain are increasingly unlikely to come across a local butcher, baker or grocery shop, and more likely to find betting shops, casinos, adult gaming centres (AGC) and so-called bingo venues, where traditional bingo is muscled out by money-sapping slot machines.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

A Strategy of Fear

Some commentators have observed that people in the UK seem more afraid of things than they used to be.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Future Progress

If we look at historical trends, current research pipelines, and plausible technological leaps, the next 25 years are likely to bring advances in what humans can do along several dimensions: physical capability, cognition, creativity, and societal-scale problem solving.

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