The price of graduates has fallen. To, it appears, less than zero. Or, to be slightly more accurate, to less than the minimum wage that the law, in its majesty, insists any labour must be paid.

In a letter to Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice recently argued that the Bank should stop paying interest on reserves – i.e. the money that financial institutions have parked on the Bank’s balance sheet.

I am fortunate to have lived most of my life during the nuclear peace.

False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

Measures to reduce the number of illegal immigrants coming across the Channel in small boats have so far failed to make a significant impact.

Hostages - sausages of course - to fortune can come in varying degrees of convincingness:

So, the people of Northern Portugal are not too keen on having a lithium mine outside their back door:

Adam Smith only mentions “invisible hand” the once in Wealth of Nations and it’s not about the joyousness of free markets or even capitalism.

It is true that China has a certain socialist direction from the top in its economic mix.

The UK imports energy in the form of fossil fuels such as oil and gas, but there are ways in which it effectively imports energy by importing goods produced abroad with alternative sources of energy.

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.