Happy 200th Birthday to Charles Dickens – writer & capitalist!
Today is Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday – and his bicentenary is rightfully to be celebrated the world over. Dickens is certainly the greatest novelist of the 19th Century and perhaps of all time. His tales still enchant us and capture our imaginations. Many of them contain scenes or characters that still force...
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...