Sending UK prisoners to be detained abroad
Striking deals with approved countries to take UK prisoners is a controversial but increasingly discussed solution to alleviate the severe overcrowding in UK prisons.
Violating the first rule of economics
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.
The world's most capitalist “socialists”
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.
The BBC’s wrong turn on audience figures
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
Cowperthwaite, ‘ee’s our man
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.
Treating NHS patients abroad
There’s a compelling case for why the NHS should make deals with other countries to treat NHS patients abroad to reduce waiting times
Ignorance leads to bad policy
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”.
If only George Monbiot would actually listen to people
In George’s column about fisheries:
Freddie Hayek just got it so wrong, didn’t he?
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.
The Clock Is Ticking on Britain’s Rare Earth Dependence
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.
Sorry, no, you can’t have geothermal - it’s illegal, see?
Cornwall should be made into an industrial hub to fuel net zero, government scientists have urged Ed Miliband.
Progress by selective death rates
I keep returning to the view I expressed in my PhD thesis ‘Trial and Error and the Idea of Progress.’