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You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows!
If I park an expensive car in certain parts of many of the world’s cities, I know what is likely to happen to it. It may not be right that it happens but happen it will. If I offer the keys of a safe...
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There is something wrong with this cheese.
There is something wrong in France. We English have always had a complicated relationship with our Gallic neighbours. For long we were bitter enemies, sworn to destroy each other. Then bitter friends,...
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Corruption and incompetence: The British and EU political classes.
There is an air of exasperation this morning in the Libertarian Press offices. The political elites of Britain and Europe are quite simply taking the peoples of Europe for a long and painful ride. At...
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Cutting off our nose to spite our face
A couple of days back I Tweeted against the EU’s proposed Financial Transaction Tax (FTT, or Tobin Tax), and David Cammegh @davidcammegh replied: “Let them collapse or clear off because then new...
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“Europe” doesn’t Work
Tim Congdon is one of the UK’s most distinguished economists, and we are privileged to have him on the UKIP team. I have written about Tim before. He’s had good things to say on banking regulation,...
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Lies, damn lies, and statistics
Here’s a fascinating chart of the price of eleven food staples from 1890 to 2011: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0873707.html Notice that most prices went up from 1915, two years after the US got a...
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Taxing bads
You get more of what you subsidise and less of what you tax. This is obvious. Taxes are often used to discourage things – smoking, for example, or gasoline consumption – subsidies are used to encourage...
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Lucy’s Diamonds: The Ethics of Modern Consumption
My girlfriend cannot look away from jewellery shop windows. Their lustrous displays hold a startlingly magnetic power over her. One particular item proves more intoxicating than any other – the diamond...
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Our posthuman future
“If I had asked people what they wanted,” Henry Ford once observed, “they would have asked for faster horses”. For the same reason, Steve Jobs never bothered with market research. He didn’t need to...
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Solar power or batteries? Which will be the breakthrough?
Will electric cars revolutionize the world? We have seen, just last week, news of a battery powered plane. Will this change our transport structures? It is certainly possible, but we probably need...
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