Britons have just 23 hours of ‘genuinely free’ time a week – so much for labour-saving technology - Elle Hunt

One of Friedrich Hayek’s most prominent ideas is that socialism can only be attractive insofar as central planning is practical. And in Hayek’s time, it was understood that optimal central planning was not only unfeasible, but unimaginable.

Striking deals with approved countries to take UK prisoners is a controversial but increasingly discussed solution to alleviate the severe overcrowding in UK prisons.

They call themselves socialists, but think and act very capitalistically. Real Marxists are probably easier to find in Europe and the USA than in Vietnam.

They call themselves socialists, but think and act very capitalistically. Real Marxists are probably easier to find in Europe and the USA than in Vietnam.

It is fair to say that when the BBC decided that only high viewing figures would justify the licence fee, it took a wrong turn and should have concentrated instead on public service television

Sir John Cowperthwaite, when running Hong Kong, famously banned anyone collecting the GDP statistics on the grounds that some damn fool would only try to do something with them.

There’s a compelling case for why the NHS should make deals with other countries to treat NHS patients abroad to reduce waiting times

Some of the country’s biggest retailers have written to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, warning that the government’s plans to overhaul business rates risk turning UK high streets into “ghost towns”.

In George’s column about fisheries:

That idea that a centrally planned, centrally controlled, centrally paid for, National Health Service would end up as being part of the Road to Serfdom.

Last week, the United States learned its lesson — don’t become over-reliant on strategic competitors for crucial mining capacity. The UK should act before this Chinese trap strangles it too.