Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

NHS debit cards

One idea to improve UK national healthcare has been the proposal to give everyone an NHS debit card they could use to access private treatment if the NHS delay in treating them were deemed unacceptably long.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

But why tower blocks, Mr Mayor, why tower blocks?

We’ve spent most of the last century with the people of this country stating they’d like to live in houses with a nice front and back garden - and the planners, the authorities, insisting that they’re going to build flats, apartments, for everyone.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Conservatives and Philosophy

The recent mauling the Conservative Party candidates took in the local elections has been attributed by different commentators to different things.

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Eamonn Butler Eamonn Butler

Friedrich Hayek Anniversary 2025

On 8 May 1899, in Vienna, Friedrich Hayek was born. He would become the dominant intellectual influence of the later twentieth century and is still influential in economic and political theory today.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

A claim of no evidence

Note what the actual claim is though. In their analysis of whether environmental laws hold up building the government has not pointed to any academic evidence that it does so.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Advancement by selective death rates

It is not coincidence that progress in science, the free market, social progress and evolution itself are all linked by a selective death rate.

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