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?
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.
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.
Rediscovering Enlightenment at the Global Stage
Two weeks ago, on April 12, I had the amazing chance to attend the Global Enlightenment Forum (GEF), which was hosted in the University of London's historic Senate House
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.
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.
Getting Dick to go Viking on the system - it’s the only way
As we suggested yesterday about the planning system: Freedom from the system itself will only apply to those bureaucratic micturation schemes.
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.
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.
The sharpest nettle is the Town and Country Planning Act.
Replacing the UK’s Town and Country Planning Acts with a more liberalised, market-led zoning system would represent a radical shift - probably the biggest planning reform since the 1947 Act itself.
The Psychology of Economic Nationalism
Frank Knight once observed, “The free traders win the debates, but the protectionists win the elections.”
When the facts change I change my mind - Pray, what do you do, Sir?
As we all know one of the exceptions to free trade, all free trade, all the time free trade, is national security.