John Phelan is a Conservative Party member and a final year economics student at Birkbeck College who blogs here. The news that the Deep Thought computer would be programmed to unravel the great questions of existence was bad news for the philosophers in Terry Pratchett’s Douglas Adams' classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. “We demand […]
John Phelan is a Conservative Party member and a final year economics student at Birkbeck College who blogs here. That “Thatcher’s children” is still a term of abuse shows how Margaret Thatcher and the decade she dominated are still relevant. Conjured up by Eds Miliband and Izzard ‘Thatcher’ is shorthand for greed and destructive selfishness. […]
John Phelan is a Conservative Party member and a final year economics student at Birkbeck College. You would have to be mad to run a football club the way Leeds United were run in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Between 1995 and 2000 they spent £48 million more on players than they brought in. […]
John Phelan is a Conservative Party member and a final year economics student at Birkbeck College. On December 17th 1922 the Union flag was lowered over the Royal Barracks in Dublin, marking the end of British rule in southern Ireland. To a large extent (quite how large was the cause of the brutal civil war) […]
John Phelan is a Contributing Editor of The Commentator and fellow of The Cobden Centre. He blogs at TheBoyPhelan. When I told a friend of mine three years ago that I was interested in Austrian economics she asked “Isn’t that just selling cuckoo clocks and lederhosen?” True, she wasn’t the brightest, but Austrian economics was fringe stuff. […]