Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

We do think this is possibly a little unfair

Zarah Sultana’s unauthorised launch of a Your Party membership portal may have been “serious criminal activity” and should be referred to the police, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has advised.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Unfunded welfare

Much of Western Europe is living beyond its means, with current welfare programmes promising benefits that are not fully financed by today’s taxpayers, thereby shifting the bill to future generations through debt, higher future taxes, or reduced services.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

A class thing

Many commentators have noted that poor health diet and habits seem more prevalent among lower income groups.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Judicial overreach

The Adam Smith Institute approaches 2026 with confidence, not because it underestimates the problems Britain faces, but because it believes those problems can be solved, and because it intends to spend the year proposing solutions to them.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

A big story of 2025

Although 2025 was, in Edward Gibbon’s words, ‘a register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind,’ with the usual acts of terror and mass murder, earthquakes, floods and wildfires, one of the biggest stories was not about politics or nature, but about science.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Edmund Burke wins again

Or, apparently, government isn’t simply the things we do together. Even, it’s possible to do things together without it being government - at which point Edmund Burke and the Little Platoons win once again.

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