Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

This has been the aim all along

You know that idea that inequality is the grand terror? That the good society - even The Good Society - is one ruled by economic equality?

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Rachel Kennedy Rachel Kennedy

Rachel Kennedy on the Global Enlightenment Forum

Following our individual research papers, the Global Enlightenment Forum served as the perfect culmination of collective academic thought surrounding the topic of Enlightenment philosophy and the contemporary Middle East.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Insisting upon bureaucratic efficiency seems fair

That the bureaucracy itself, when presented with all the relevant information, has to make a decision in less than geologic time seems sensible to us. It also doesn’t seem like a huge imposition. Nor even a loosening of necessary protections.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Why industrial policies don’t work

Chlorine-washed chicken is not, in fact, an important issue. Every bag of washed salad in the European Union - and UK - has been washed in chlorinated water.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Ending the March/April chaos

The mania of roadworks and construction projects that bedevil every Spring is partly caused by the desire of local governments to spend their financial budgets rather than have them expire as the financial year ends in early April.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

A UK statute of limitations

Most legal systems worldwide, including those of the US and EU member states, have well-established statutes of limitations for many criminal and civil matters.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Dick the Butcher had a point

We list these achievements not to boorishly hark back to our country’s former glory, but to remind us how prosperity was painstakingly built – brick by brick, track by track – to inspire us to look forward with hope and possibility.

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