Does society risk my life through safety? The perils of too much risk-aversion We would all like a riskless life, right? The Precautionary...
Corporation Tax or Income Tax: Which is the greatest con? Taxation is arguably, the greatest intervention of government in the...
Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children There are numerous cases where well-meaning people find themselves defending...
Should we take our leaders as seriously as they take themselves? Political leaders invest time and energy in cultivating their public...
Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek The Hebrew lawgiver Moses was compared to ancient Greek lawgivers...
Liquidity: Finance in motion or evaporation? House prices stuck? Not enough liquidity. Inflation rising? Too much...
Burma and North Korea - Avoid the Law unless Convenient Conflicts in both these countries show the real limits of...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...