Bad data cannot produce good policy. This gets us to the heart of the problem with the mandated gender pay … Continue reading “Gender pay gaps are not the result of discrimination”

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?”

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”

“Efforts to restrict speech can become a tool to silence critics or oppress minorities. The strongest weapon against hateful speech … Continue reading “Are Cambridge University students really too fragile to be exposed to new ideas?”

Last week I blogged about the way in which regulation may exacerbate pay gaps between different ethnic groups, using the … Continue reading “How government regulation exacerbates ethnic pay gaps”

Kristian Niemietz, Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs has written for CapX on Venezuela’s collapse. Venezuela’s … Continue reading “Venezuela’s crisis is entirely of its own making”

The IEA has been quoted in The Sun following the latest Oxfam report on inequality. The findings of this report … Continue reading “Oxfam’s latest report misrepresents poverty”

Commenting on Oxfam’s Its Public Good or Private Wealth? report on inequality, Associate Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs Kate Andrews … Continue reading “Oxfam’s obsession with the rich distracts from their aim of tackling poverty”

Opponents of drugs reform often trot out the line that the UK gave up fighting the war on drugs some … Continue reading “Drugs: The war we choose to fight”