The War on Drugs has been a policy failure of enormous magnitude.  It has exacted a terrible cost in terms of ruined lives and wasted resources; it has hastened the devastation of the rainforests, eroded our institutions of civil society and weakened the rule of law.  It must be...

Lady Thatcher celebrated her 86th birthday yesterday, 13th October. Many commentators more eloquent than I have written of her achievements, of how her political leadership helped turnaround the “sick man of Europe” as Britain was known in the 1970s.  Lady Thatcher’s free market radicalism after decades of creeping and...

Radio 4’s “Farming Today” and its defence of European Union farm subsidies (broadcast 6.30am, 20th August 2011) was surprising only in how one-sided was the presentation of the debate. Rather than the balanced, dispassionate presentation of the case for and against government subsidies to farmers – something that one might have expected from...