There has recently been some discussion about my colleague Dr Charles McCreery’s father, the late General Sir Richard McCreery. This has ...

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...

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

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and political theorist of the Victorian era. During his lifetime h...

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

When I was about 6, my parents and I moved back to Gants Hill in East London after having been evacuated during the war. After we returned, ...

In 2011, I commented on the fact that the basic state pension is acknowledged to be well below the level of income needed to reach a minimu...

Nicola Sturgeon Ahead of the General Election, which is said to be more focused than ever on the votes of pensioners, I am again re-posti...

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) copy of a letter to a philosopher Someone recently suggested that I am more cynical about society th...