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Wednesday, 21 May 2014

UKIP or the Greens: Who are really saying the unsayable?

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Amidst their recent popularity , the United Kingdom Independence Party has tried to encourage the perception that they stand outside the e...
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Monday, 28 April 2014

A tax on conspicuous consumption?

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In a recent Vox article, Matthew Yglesias argues for punitive income and inheritance taxes . His logic is that these taxes can have benefit...
Sunday, 30 March 2014

The Misleading Rhetoric of the ‘Global Race’

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The idea that Britain is involved in a ‘ global race ’ which it will ‘lose’ to other countries unless the necessary reforms are undertaken ...
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

Can cosmopolitans vote for Scottish independence?

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A cosmopolitan nationalist is a contradiction in terms. Yet I want to suggest that in some cases consistent cosmopolitans may be justified i...
Tuesday, 31 December 2013

What does people analytics mean for social justice?

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2013 has seen growing interest in the idea of ‘ people analytics ’ – informally described as the application of ‘ Moneyball ’ to corporate...
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Sunday, 3 November 2013

Privatised Healthcare: What Would We Lose?

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Contrasting the different challenges facing British and American healthcare, Janet Daley attacks the “anachronistic and unsatisfactory” a...
Sunday, 22 September 2013

Are opinion polls bad for democracy?

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Ahead of today’s general election, the German broadcaster ZDF has broken with convention and published an opinion poll in the final few d...
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Strategy consultant by day, political philosopher by night. This is a forum for my assorted thoughts on philosophy, politics and other stuff.
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