5 days ago · People are falling out of love with democracy. In one recent poll, over half of 13-27 year-olds said they would prefer a "strong leader" to our curent democracy.A survey last year by Pew Research found only 31% of UK people saying that representative democracy is a very good system of government, a decline since 2017. And only 30% of voters now say it was right to leave the EU, suggesting that ...

4 days ago · People are falling out of love with democracy. In one recent poll, over half of 13-27 year-olds said they would prefer a "strong leader" to our curent democracy.A survey last year by Pew Research found only 31% of UK people saying that representative democracy is a very good system of government, a decline since 2017. And only 30% of voters now say it was right to leave the EU, suggesting that ...

Jan 6, 2025 · The government should stop billionaires making big donations to political parties; should move towards rejoining the EU; should fine polluting water companies more heavily; should make a positive case for immigration; and revive local economies and redistribute income more in order to fight off the far-right.. All these suggestions, taken from a quick browse of Bluesky, seem like good ...

Jan 15, 2024 · The post office scandal is not merely a matter of a few bad bosses. It should raise questions about the very structure of our society. It's easy to say that Paula Vennells was corrupt and/or incompetent and that the Horizon system was faulty.

Jan 11, 2025 · Immigration isn't purely a left/right issue any longer. Whilst immigration itself is neither intrinsically good nor bad, the questions are around historically unprecedented absolute volumes of migration into the UK, it's implications for social cohesion and integration, for net productivity, for housing and public services (both supplying and consuming those services) etc.

Sep 27, 2022 · There's a paradox: Liz Truss's government contains many members who claim to be free marketeers, and yet the first policy of her premiership has been to freeze energy prices and subsidize energy suppliers.. This poses the question: what does it mean to be a free marketeer today?

Jan 30, 2023 · In the first pages of After Virtue Alasdair MacIntyre imagines people trying to revive science after it has been destroyed by catastrophes and know-nothing governments. They would, he said, have only fragments to build upon; bits of theories unrelated to other bits or to experimental evidence; and partial ideas unrelated to their context.

Dec 10, 2024 · An extremist, not a fanatic. In 1968 Garrett Hardin wrote an essay (pdf), The tragedy of the commons, in which he argued that common ownership of assets such as land or fishing waters was incompatible with people being the selfish rational maximizers of economic theory.This is because if every herdsman can graze his cattle for free on commonly-owned pasture land each will want to put as many ...

Oct 28, 2021 · One of the great political changes of my adult lifetime has been the right’s abandonment of free market economics, as illustrated by the government imposing trade frictions within the UK and putting up the tax burden to what the OBR says will be “its highest level since Roy Jenkins was Chancellor in the late 1960s.” Two books I’ve read recently pose a question: might this shift be due ...

Feb 25, 2021 · People choose to listen to charlatans even when it is against their interest to do so. That’s the message of some recent experiments.. Aristotelis Boukouras and colleagues got subjects to take a multiple choice exam during which they could choose to take help from one of two computerized advisors.