On the subject of the Manchester ’supercasino’.
I am a committed libertarian. It is why I write here, week in, week out about the need for the small state, low taxation, the diminution of welfarism and the promotion of individual responsibility
Thats OK. Then we have this,
Libertarianism can only go so far.
Also OK. And we conclude with this,
After all: can […]
I’m confused over the Catholic gay adoption issue. Regardless of the law banning discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, what gay couple in their right mind would approach a Catholic adoption agency? Surely the problem would just go away (unless there are gay couples who just want to irritate Catholics)
So we are left with […]
I think this is quite cool.
Full Disclosure: I own 2 Apple computers, and ipod and have been using Apple’s for 15 years.
The Norwegian consumer body has ruled that songs downloaded from itunes must be playable on other machines. Maniacal Apple fans may see this forced union of itunes with non-Apple hardware as the exploitation of a classy and refined product […]
I have an interest in childcare so this Opinion piece by Janet Daley caught my eye. She laments the absence of grandparents, and feels guilty herself at pursuing her career instead of offering support to her struggling daughter. Her central question:
Why are educated working women, who are more highly paid than ever before, having to […]
An entertaining debate ensues over at The Economist, and in the comments at Marginal Revolution over whether the implications of applying of a zero discount rate in the Stern Report for the issue of abortion. Can it be consistent, asks the economist:
I am still chewing over the full import of the moral intuition that people […]
Let’s not discuss how I feel about having stayed up for all the Ashes matches, with a new baby (having manly volunteered to do the night feeds). Instead, I draw your attention to the most sensible diagnosis of our lamentable failings in Australia, from Matthew syed in the Times.
Those who believed that England’s victory in […]
Janet Daley worries that combating environmental damage through taxation of pollution, may re-create a class divide that technology has helped destroy.
If politicians are planning restrictions on these “polluting” aspects of private life, to be enforced by a price mechanism, they had better accept they will be reconstructing a class divide that will drastically affect the […]
