The most hated building in London
The old Department of the Environment building on Marsham Street in Westminster, sometimes called the Marsham Towers, gained a reputation as the most hated building in London for several reasons:
How glorious it is to see Worstall’s Fallacy alive and well in The Guardian
Worstall’s Fallacy is to demand what must be done without taking account of what is already done.
Housing the homeless in the sunshine
It’s a thought experiment to consider whether UK homeless and destitute people could be sent, voluntarily, to a Caribbean island to live in purpose-built accommodation with medical facilities on hand.
Sweeties after the medicine Chancellor, sweeties after the medicine
To equate backbench MPs with recalcitrant toddlers is to be unfair to recalcitrant toddlers of course.
You can toothsuck about what should be all you like, reality’s still going to smack you in the chops
As with our constant insistence that no business plan survives first contact with the market we need to point out that no moral philosophy survives a confrontation with reality.
Of course it’s worse if they do understand this
Of course the process has been abused - we are talking of politics here so of course it will be abused.
The peril of floating ideas
Sometimes UK governments 'float' ideas they say are being considered to assess what the reactions are.
Now we know the status quo on the price of holes in the Albert Hall
Ministers will exempt the holders of Wimbledon debentures from strict new rules on reselling live event tickets.
We call it - UPF is student politics not science
It’s long been difficult to pin anyone down as to what this ultraprocessed food actually is.
Venezuela today
Venezuela's economy has been in a state of total collapse since 2013, resulting in a severe humanitarian crisis, a drastic decline in the standard of living, and a massive population exodus.
Why does everyone want to make the country poorer?
We are richest when the things that we have, that exist, are held, used by, those who value them most - this extends to we are richest when things are employed in their highest value uses.