The COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK were unprecedented in scale and impact. They fundamentally altered public behavior and psychology.

We don’t think much of the way poverty is measured these days - it confuses inequality with poverty - and most of the alternatives suggested are worse.

Socialism, when implemented as a political and economic system, has historically led to tyranny and persecution for several reasons:

People in temporary accommodation are not the homeless. People in temporary accommodation are the people the welfare state has saved from homelessness.

We could make many more affordable flats for young people available in cities, especially London.

No, the answer does not have to be importing people.

Growth and investment make for a post which is easy to write, but tricky to realise.

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak at the Global Enlightenment Forum organized by The Adam Smith Institute in London.

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

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.

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.

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