Last year’s Conservative party conference marked a change in tone for the Prime Minister and her relationship with the free … Continue reading “It’s time the Conservatives matched free market rhetoric to policies”

Faux-outrage and faux-indignation are normally the preserve of the political Left. When your social status depends on your imaginary moral … Continue reading “Beware the Bregalitarians”

On social media, I frequently mock socialists for their refusal to accept any responsibility for real-world approximations of their ideas. … Continue reading “Socialism – debunking the “Good idea, badly done” meme”

Socialists usually despise marketing, which they see as hoodwinking people into buying tripe they neither need nor truly want. And … Continue reading “Communism literally always ends in failure”

I was asked on a podcast this week if capitalism and communism can co-exist. The short answer is, yes: capitalism … Continue reading “We are capitalists – you’re welcome!”

Opinion pieces which tell us to stop obsessing over socialism’s past failures, and start to get excited about its future … Continue reading “Why is socialism – literally – in Vogue?”

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”

Over the past year or so, I have occasionally mocked socialists for their tendency to disown real-world socialist experiments whenever … Continue reading “The libertarian right and the socialist left: just as bad as each other?”

Continued from Part 1.   Let me suggest that what Marx was objecting to – revolting against – was human … Continue reading “Marx’s Flight from Reality (Part 2)”