Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts
Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Truth - everyone is doing better here than anybody has ever done

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I'll admit to finding Jordan Peterson a little irritating (and maybe a tad puritan) but this is absolutely true: "Everyone is doin...
Saturday, 12 May 2018

Effective measures to address social mobility and inequality are politically unpopular

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A great deal is spoken about equality and, as a result, we have two concepts that are seen as core to the resolution of inequalities: socia...
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Monday, 26 February 2018

Free markets are better for fairness and equality than the state

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Yet again we have evidence of how systems dominated by non-free, constrained or licenced systems (or else directly controlled by the state)...
Wednesday, 29 October 2014

The progressive left don't believe in free speech - and will redefine speech to pretend otherwise...

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**** Free speech is important. It's not just me saying that most people think free speech is one of our core values: When asked wh...
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Friday, 16 May 2014

A comment about wealth...

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**** The ONS has published the latest figures on the UK's wealth. And this has resulted in a load of, mostly ill-informed, articles ei...
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Sunday, 30 March 2014

Thomas Piketty, New Fascist?

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**** On the face of it Piketty's work is orthodox, envy-ridden social democracy. Backed up by dodgy charts. But when we poke around at...
Wednesday, 8 May 2013

In which the North/South divide proves (again) that "The Spirit Level" is bunkum

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**** The Work Foundation (pdf), in one of those studies that seem much cleverer than they actually are, has pronounced that, the fur...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013

A point about the equal marriage debate...

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**** It's just that I'm a stickler for these things. The debate - and the decision of parliament isn't about marriage it's...
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Thursday, 21 June 2012

Is JUST West Yorkshire being intentionally disingenuous?

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**** In its latest bulletin (something it produces with staggering frequency), JUST West Yorkshire provides the following headline. Indee...
Monday, 5 September 2011

Look, it was a mistake. It was quite funny. Why all the fuss?

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**** I thought Liverpudlians prided themselves on a sense of humour, on an appreciation of the ridiculous. Well I guess that the Royal Liv...
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