Jamie Whyte
Bloody liberties
“Amazon’s puff for On Freedom says that Sunstein takes a “pathbreaking” approach to the subject. In fact, confounding ability with freedom is an old mistake”
Illiberal and irrelevant
“Francis Green and David Kynaston do not like private schools. They think the government should do something to stop children attending them. Why? You already know the answer.”
Don’t worry, be wealthy
Paul Dolan’s Happy Ever After frustratingly fails to address obvious questions about our idea of happiness
Bad Examples
Should it be illegal to expose people to damaging ideas?
Illiberal consensus
The political battleground of New Zealand
Spending Spree
According to the LSE, the last Labour government’s public spending “worked”. But the researchers came to this conclusion solely from a play on words
Picking Losers
Harriet Harman’s obsession with female-only quotas would only stricture the free market and ignores the realities of successful business
Cuddly or Creepy?
Ed says he loves your children as much as you do: a claim at once vacuous and disturbing
Muscling In
Under Cameron’s “muscular liberalism”, the distinction between what is the government’s business and what is private citizens’ business is to be dissolved
Nudge Nudge, Wonk?
David Cameron’s endorsement of Behavioural Economics will not make us all happier and is inconsistent with Tory values
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics