Four ways to make radical policy realistic in Britain — By Luke Gardiner and Sam Bowman Oxford University physicist (and Brexiteer) David Deutsch recently tweeted that “You can’t just make a wish-list of features you’d like a society to have. It’s all done by institutions. The nature of the institution is much more important than what it does on a…

At Freedom Week, the summer school for students the ASI and IEA run in Cambridge every year, we do a ‘steel man’ (opposite of a straw man) debate where I try to give what I think is the best case for leftism. …

Would you trust a monopolist with your porn viewing history? Thanks to the UK government’s new “porn block”, you might have to. These new rules, which require porn sites to verify their users’ ages, have led most to adopt a single service called AgeID. …

About eighteen months ago I wrote a post called “Stuff that I recommend you buy” that gave recommendations of consumer goods that I got a lot of value from compared to the price. I think of myself as a savvy shopper and do a lot of research before I buy…

I was a discussant at one of this year’s Beesley Lectures, responding to remarks by Ofgem’s Chairman Martin Cave under the title “How long will retail price caps last? Can they be replaced by Open APIs?”. Here is a lightly edited version of my remarks. Whether energy price controls work…

I have spent the last two years rolling my eyes at people’s calls for a second referendum on Brexit. I thought it was impossible, and diverted Remainers’ energies away from shaping the Brexit settlement, making a hard or no deal Brexit more likely. I now think that I was wrong…

Don’t call yourself a centrist if you’re a liberal. I know why you do it. You hate the people running the left and right at the moment, and your main priority is to communicate that you’re not with them. Same here. But “centrism” implies that you’re trying to find a…

Every new Health Secretary has to walk a tightrope. They want to leave the NHS in better shape than they found it, but know that grand reforms can backfire badly. …

Like many other people I have a stocks and shares ISA that puts my money into a set of index funds, which are baskets of investments in every publicly traded company in various stock markets, weighted by the market cap of each company. Effectively, it allows me to invest in…