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
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal