When this blog was launched over a decade ago, most of my articles were rebuttals of the latest nonsense I … Continue reading ““Yet you participate in society”: in defence of “Mr Gotcha””

I normally do not pay attention to implicit political messages in movies or TV series. I blank out a movie’s … Continue reading “The dodgy economics of “Snowpiercer” and “The Platform”: an econ bore’s movie review”

All around the world, anti-capitalists are currently united in the hope that the crisis unleashed by the coronavirus could finally … Continue reading “Beware the “Coronfirmation Bias” of socialist intellectuals”

At first glance, the assertion in this article’s headline may seem unfair. After all, aren’t anti-capitalist activists widely regarded as … Continue reading “Anti-capitalists don’t care about the fate of the world’s poorest countries”

You can’t escape it; capitalism has a bad rap. Last night, thousands of anti-capitalist protestors took to the streets in … Continue reading “Anti-capitalism: trendy but wrong”

We all know that capitalism is failing. Jeremy Corbyn has been telling us since the 1970s, before we even had … Continue reading “Capitalism does work – to the extent that we allow it to operate”

Ten years ago today, George Monbiot wrote an article for the Guardian titled ‘In this age of diamond saucepans, only … Continue reading “Remember the real champions of austerity: George Monbiot and the eco-miserabilists”

Seven years ago, I published an IEA monograph, which was a spin-off from what would later become a dissertation. There … Continue reading “Nick Timothy’s ‘post-liberal conservatism’: nonsense on stilts”

In many ways, Spain is the EU’s poster child. The country’s determination to be part of the European project was … Continue reading “A statist agenda would destroy all the gains Spain has made since joining the EU”