Herbert Spencer on the idea that tax erodes freedom, from his Principles of Ethics : Money taken from the citizen, not to pay the costs of ...

Were we to find a chemical in the water, or in food, that was damaging children’s growth and their brains worldwide, and thus their intellec...

Herbert Spencer’s essay ‘From freedom to bondage’ contains the following reflections on socialism. [Compulsory co-operation], still exempli...

Oriel College’s Rhodes Building, with statue of Cecil Rhodes Speaking at the ceremony to swear in Professor Louise Richardson as [Oxford...

There was a feast by the blazing campfires in front of the lines of picketed elephants, and Little Toomai was the hero of it all. And the ...

The parents of a child genius with an IQ similar to Einstein’s have said she is ‘perfectly ordinary’. Ophelia Spracklen, 12, scored a stunni...

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 ...