Tomorrow evening, Channel 4′s Dispatches profile of Boris Johnson will include parts of a taped conversation between him and his old school friend Darius Guppy. Channel 4 is able to broadcast these extracts because I supplied them with a copy … Continue reading
Norman Geras ruminates here on the difference between entitlement and desert: the runner who trained hardest and sacrificed the most might deserve to win the race, but the person who crosses the line first is entitled to the medal. He … Continue reading
I was just reading about how the 1911 railways strike boosted the use of motor cars, people used them to go holiday for the first time. Railway use continued to rise but its monopoly was broken and the motor car … Continue reading
Interesting post here from the Irish Liberty Forum.
Here’s a use, at last, for this idiotic word: as a euphemism. The Primal diet consists of eating raw meat and vegetables, preferably when they are seriously past their best. “It took me a long time to try high meat … Continue reading
I’ve been arguing with inaccurate definitions of the free market recently, here and here. Misprepresentations of the market abound, though; here’s another example, spotted by Jonny Newton, and unsurprisingly enough taken from the Today programme on BBC Radio 4: [the … Continue reading
Bishop Hill recently posted a video of a speech by Sean Gabb, of the Libertarian Alliance. Gabb quotes from the same document I quote from on the masthead here. He feels we need a new constitutional settlement. And he has … Continue reading
Here’s a revealing little incident from Turkey: The main Turkish government agency responsible for funding science has provoked outrage by apparently censoring a magazine article on the life and work of Charles Darwin. The article was stripped from the March … Continue reading
You’ve heard this. It doesn’t stale. You haven’t? You should.
A guest post by Sir Liam Donaldson. Read it. Genius.