The ASI team have been comparing notes about what they notice is slower service in pubs and restaurants.

Rebecca Renard-Wilson has stopped shopping at Target and all things Amazon including Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh.

UK newspapers and media outlets are full of lists.

One of the problems - one, note - this country faces is the marginal tax and benefits withdrawal rate faced as anyone works their way up out of poverty.

One of those rallying cries which we don’t think would gain all that much support if people understood it.

We at the Adam Smith Institute are saddened by the death of Edwin J Feulner Jr, one of the leading intellectual organisers behind America’s conservative movement, who led the Heritage Foundation for 37 years.

Poe’s Law: without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

Tax them, tax them over there to pay for what we want!

AI is becoming the story of the decade. Past industrial revolutions have featured water, steam, railways, electricity, internal combustion engines and computers.

Red tape is a “boot on the neck of businesses” and risks undermining the UK’s dash for growth, Rachel Reeves has said.

 “The bounty to the white-herring fishery is a tonnage bounty; and is proportioned to the burden of the ship, not to her diligence or success in the fishery; and it has, I am afraid, been too common for vessels to fit out for the sole purpose of catching, not the fish, but the bounty.”

The first chart is what government spends - largely and roughly and good enough. The second - largely, good enough etc - is that spending plus the varied redistributions of income performed.