Heresy of the week: ‘Teaching to the test’ is a good thing
There is no hard and fast distinction between memorising and understanding: they are mutually supporting activities.
The future of tax-cutting conservatism could be decided in Kansas
The argument that tax cuts ‘starve the beast’ (i.e. force governments to reduce their spending) is, in practice, a weak one.
Why the state can’t make you happy
Governments can redistribute money, but not happiness
An urgent question: What is going right with the British economy?
Britain finds herself between a ‘Keynesian’ America and a ‘Monetarist’ EU – but is doing better than both of them
Three reasons why conservatives should welcome an Elizabeth Warren challenge to Hillary Clinton
The Democrats love to portray their Republican opponents as the tools of big business, but they themselves are up to their necks in big money politics
Heresy of the week: There is no ‘Green Blob’
Within any particular policy context, the ‘blob’ is always where the most money is.
Just how encouraged should we be by ‘Generation Right’?
Perhaps what we’re seeing from young people is a disenchantment with the simplicities of both right and left.
Conservatives need to talk about the deserving and undeserving rich
An intriguing argument for ‘trickle-up’ economics
CCTV plus facial recognition software equals electronic tags for everyone
This technology was once the reserve of science fiction; now they have it Leicestershire.
Politics is downstream of culture – and it’s time to clean-up the pollution
The right often loses the political battle because it hasn’t bothered to fight the cultural battle
Heresy of the week: There is no such thing as artificial intelligence and there never will be
There is no intelligence without the mind and computers are fundamentally mindless
In the battle between coal and renewables, we should side with the future not the past
Getting rid of the carbon tax won’t stop Australia’s solar power revolution.
Trickle-down economics is dead, let’s build prosperity from the middle-out instead
A thriving economy needs thriving domestic consumers
A bizarre twist in the story of America’s gun culture has profound implications for civil liberties back home
Smart guns, smart cars, smart houses – the future has arrived, but who’s in control?
It’s not a case of whether we develop the green belt, but how we do it
Green belt restrictions aren’t only reason why the most attractive sites for new housing haven’t been developed