Reform Welfare, Axe Benefit Tourism… & Open the Doors!
Matthew Elliot, who founded the Taxpayers’Alliance, has an interesting opinion piece in the Daily Mail today (20/01/12), on the need to address the issue of benefit tourism. As Matthew writes, migrants should “Come here to work, not to claim benefits”. Matthew’s “hook” is a study published by Chris Grayling...
Presidents & Nobel Laureates: "End War on Drugs"
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...
Happy Birthday, Lady Thatcher!!!
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...