I have noticed over the last forty years that it has become more and more difficult to find anyone willing to do useful work in a polite and...

The idea that ability is partly inherited continues to be controversial, for reasons that seem to have more to do with ideology than scient...

The power of society depends on the power of the lie. The power of the lie is very great. The power of the individual depends on the right...

In the views of exponents of how society came to be constituted as it is (or was at the time, or should be) we note fairly constantly a will...

One of the strongest taboos is that on the concept of being frustrated by society. It is absolutely impossible, according to the ideology, f...

I have been told by somebody – a fellow academic – that climate change is damaging ski resorts, especially at the lower levels, where it is ...

A legally imposed minimum wage is a violation of the principle that individuals should be able to contract with one another in whatever way ...

I have always had a strong principle against getting into debt, as had my parents. The accepted attitude towards being in debt changed abr...

From the onset of socialism, it clearly reduced the opportunities of the most exceptional. This may be illustrated by its effects on the fa...

It seems the government is planning to update the law on child abuse to include ‘emotional cruelty’ as an imprisonable offence. Changes to ...

Teachers and social workers should tell people that they are bad parents and to stop failing their children, the head of Ofsted has warned. ...

[The Home Secretary] Theresa May last night called on a chief constable to apologise after an explosive report suggested senior officers had...

Socialism has always regarded the support which might be given by a family to an exceptional individual as a potential threat. This has been...

A father has been jailed at a secret court hearing for sending a Facebook message to his grown-up son on his 21st birthday. Garry Johnson,...

A recent advert in the Financial Times shows a female professor at the London Business School, asking the question: ‘Should financial regu...

One expects any variation in the IQ bell curve to show up most noticeably at the upper and lower ends, where the percentages approach zero a...

Extract from an article by the Daily Mail's Alex Brummer: Roughly one-sixth of construction output consists of putting up new homes. In...

This is a letter sent to Bel Mooney, the ‘agony aunt’ of the Daily Mail . Dear Bel Every day I wake up and pray: ‘Please God let today be...

Middle-class families face a battering in next month’s Budget after the Chancellor ruled out major changes to his plans to slash child benef...

I am amazed at the antagonism to capitalism that is expressed in sympathy with the anti-capitalism protesters. Capitalism is the only thing ...