Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) The philosopher Herbert Spencer, commenting in 1851 on the possible effects of welfare, a century before the ...

Tesco says national living wage will cost it £500m by 2020 Tesco has said George Osborne’s new ‘national living wage’ will cost it £500m b...

When my colleague Dr Fabian Wadel was a graduate student in economics at Oxford, he once expressed to another such student (male) possible r...

Jarrow marchers (1936) In the pre-totalitarian world which prevailed in this country before the onset of the Welfare State, there was a c...

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. (Professor Albert Bartlett) I do not...

Andrew Lansley last night warned that NHS spending may have to rise for ever, simply to keep pace with rising life expectancy. The Health S...

Women considering a termination could be offered independent counselling as part of the biggest shake-up of abortion laws for 20 years. Th...

If a radical change is introduced in the structure of a situation, such as was introduced in 1945 with the onset of the Welfare State, there...

A newborn girl was taken into care because of fears her weight would balloon in the care of her obese parents. The child was removed from h...

How do you reduce crime in a socialist society? David Cameron, supposedly a ‘conservative’, has said: ... the police could not be blamed fo...