The autonomous region of Catalonia in the north east of Spain, has announced plans for a referendum on sovereignty. Early this year, the government approved a largely symbolic declaration of sovereignty, with 85 votes for, 41 against and 2 abstentions. Plans are now being made to form a transition council which will conduct research and… [Read More]
Even if processed meat carries an increased risk of early death, you may still feel it is worth taking a chance.
One of the common objections to government attempts to manage the exchange is that the government can only control nominal exchange rates, rather than real exchange rates. The implication is that exchange rate targeting by governments is futile. See for example, Phillip Booth’s cogent critique of the John Mill-authored Civitas publication A Price that Matters.… [Read More]
*That roughly means “good health” in Hebrew, if the web does not mislead me British coverage of the Israeli elections held back in January often focused on the international and security implications of the vote, as reporting in that region so often does. Therefore, we tend to remain ill-informed about Israel’s domestic policy debates. This… [Read More]
British Influence have been at it again: presenting opinion as objective fact. In the aftermath of UKIP’s recent vote surge, Peter Wilding attacks UKIP with so wide a scattergun that the entire Eurosceptic project is targeted. He writes, “Leaving the EU would not be an economic liberation. It would resolve none of the domestic failings… [Read More]
The Guardian has interpreted data from an FOI request an a sign of racial bias at Oxford but the most striking contrasts in the data concern whether candidates answered the ethnicity question at all.
Last week I examined the claims of Vince Cable, David Lidington and Ed Davey as they heralded the EU’s economic benefits. Their ‘headline’ figures were that 3.5 million British jobs depended on EU membership, and that participation in the Single Market was worth £3,300 every year to every household. They were wrong, their statistics arising… [Read More]
Last week saw the one year anniversary of the takeover of Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, by the Circle Health Partnership, which represented the first takeover of an NHS hospital by a private provider. It’s a unique and controversial experiment to rescue a hospital that was in dire straits, but it hasn’t been… [Read More]
Various Civitas publications have argued that a devaluation of sterling is required to boost manufacturing exports. See, for example, this piece by John Mills Is the pound over-valued? or number five of David Green’s ten-point plan for a modern industrial policy. The rationale is simple: increasing exports will reduce Britain’s large trade deficit, help rebalance… [Read More]
There may have been valid reasons for jurors to put apparently absurd questions to the judge in a trial involcving public figures.