Decisions, values and choices
“We can’t save all species under threat, so we must choose, and that won’t be straightforward,” said Jean-Christophe Vié of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature based in Geneva. This...
View ArticleTax Freedom Day vs Society
Today* is apparently Tax Freedom Day, on which we “stop working for the Chancellor and start working for ourselves”. I am all for lower taxes and a smaller state – but I am also for a society where we...
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Feminism: we need to consider the three pillars of life
I was never much of a Cosmo reader and these days mostly read things like the Economist (though I have a guilty penchant for Stylist when I can find a copy) but reading all the tributes to Helen Gurley...
View ArticleLeave me alone (except for that. And that. Oh and that too)
I said I would return to some interesting YouGov polling commissioned by the Adam Smith Institute for its new report, Britons Say No to Nanny. Key findings include that 9 per cent of people believe...
View ArticleHow to eat your cake and have it
Get people asking the wrong questions and the answers don’t matter. An example of the wrong question was contained in the blog post “leave me alone”: “If we want the government to do and provide and...
View ArticleTipping the scales
A man was assessing his divorce a decade after it occurred, on the eve of his second wedding. A friend asked why his first one failed. It was, he said, because he neglected the scales. Every single...
View ArticleBroaden and widen in order to deepen
James Bethell wrote an excellent piece on Monday about the practicalities of negative campaigning; I do think his four essential points apply more widely than just to UKIP. They are: Timing Vehicle of...
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