International economic comparisons need a whole bunch of footnotes (PPP indices are very dodgy, measurement methodologies differ between countries, the comparison with America is particularly worthle… (View Post)

Big,interventionist government programme achieves exactly the opposite of what is intended shock ... (View Post)

Amazingly, some dangerous idiots still want the government to have yet more of our intimate personal data, even though it's obvious they can't keep it safe. Last year Labour were advocating… (View Post)

This study has an interesting chart (Fig 1) about political support by religion: http://www.brin.ac.uk/figures/religion-and-party-preference-in-2019/ It argues that: - Anglicans, Jewish respondents, … (View Post)

Yes it's amazing people still believe in fairy stories like religion isn't it? But then some fantasies are apparently indestructible - some people are still socialists, despite the rout of … (View Post)