As mentioned before, I am using this blog to occasionally respond to readers’ comments and critiques of my book Socialism: … Continue reading “Millennial Socialists: Can we blame them?”

It has become increasingly clear that the influx of data from the gender pay gap reporting measures fails to provide … Continue reading “Gender pay gap reporting produces another round of misleading statistics”

Summary Now into the second year of mandated gender pay gap reporting for large organisations, it has become increasingly clear … Continue reading “The Gender Pay Gap Reporting Measures: 2019 Update”

Rutger Bregman, the Dutch historian and left-wing activist, has gained something of a cult following in Britain. Bregman’s sales tactic … Continue reading “On Venezuela, Rutger Bregman is rewriting recent history”

The National Minimum Wage is 20 years old today. Despite the controversy surrounding its inception, it is now widely accepted … Continue reading “The minimum wage – 20 years on”

Commenting on the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the National Minimum Wage, Professor Len Shackleton, Editorial Research Fellow at … Continue reading “Politicising the National Minimum Wage will not help those on low incomes”

Game theory, or the economics of bargaining under conditions of rational decision-making, has been a popular branch of the dismal … Continue reading “Can game theory help to explain the UK’s current Brexit difficulties?”

Commenting on a new study – published in the open access journal BMC Public Health – which calculates alcohol cancer … Continue reading “Media Release: Comparing drinking to smoking is pointless and misleading”

Yesterday, the European Parliament voted in favour of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, in one of … Continue reading “The EU Copyright Directive is likely to stifle competition and innovation”