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14 January 2015

Like John Stuart Mill’s 1859 treatise of the same name, On Liberty is a timely wake-up call. But while Mill was an establishment figure deploying the philosophical reasoning of utilitarianism to decry tyranny, Chakrabarti, having forsaken the establishment, engages in...

14 January 2015

We have all seen the horrific consequences of extremist ideology here in the UK. We were appalled by the 7/7 London bombings and the murder of trooper Lee Rigby, and our hearts went out to these innocent victims and their...

13 January 2015

One of the major and traditionally undervalued economic and social tools that government has available to it is the way that it spends public money on private business. UK public procurement expenditure accounts for about £227bn a year, of which...

13 January 2015

What on earth could be going through their minds? What could possibly enable grown men (it is almost always men) to murder and maim defenseless people who pose no immediate physical threat to anyone? Even worse, to commit these heinous...

12 January 2015

Over the weekend Ed Miliband asked Andrew Dilnot, the head of the UK Statistics Authority, to consider introducing a new measure of UK living standards. He said: "A future Labour government would use the indicator as the key measure by...

12 January 2015

When the physicist Lord Kelvin said: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” he wasn’t thinking about the way we measure the economy, but he could just as well have been. Economic success isn’t success unless it is...