Votes at 16: A Call for Consistency
I’m not an expert on child development. I don’t know whether 17 is the right age at which we should let people get a driving license, or whether this should…
Month: May 2018
A More Transparent Tax System
One of the challenges of the tax system is how complex it is. And that’s not just in terms of the rules and sub-rules, but because it’s hard for people…
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Guest Blogger Programme Announced
"I'm pleased to be announcing a guest blogger programme, showcasing interests or achievements of friends and members of the edrith community that are likely to be of interest to the…
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Things I’ve Learned from Games
People often underestimate how much you can learn from games. On a simply factual level, I learned most of my British geography from The Great Game of Britain, a light-hearted…
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Making Markets Work: Public Procurement
Marking Markets Work is a series exploring how the free market can operate more effectively to deliver benefits to ordinary working people. It affirms that the free market has been…
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Wonkhe: Grade Inflation: A Clear and Present Danger
My latest Wonkhe post, this time on the epidemic of grade inflation in our universities. Read the full article here. https://wonkhe.com/blogs/grade-inflation-a-clear-and-present-danger/
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Debut Conservative Home piece
My debut article for Conservative Home has been published: "Five Tests for a Good Brexit Deal." In it, I briefly review progress on negotiation since Brexit and then set out…
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Five Things We’ve Learned From Science
Because there's not been much progress in the fundamentals of physics - the Standard Model is still essentially the same as it was 30 years ago - it can sometimes…
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Started the Christmas Quiz
So, I've finally started work on Christmas Quiz XIII, only five months behind schedule! Still, six months to go before advent, so plenty of time yet to ensure it's suitable…
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Against Means-Testing; OR, I Agree with Tony Benn (on this issue)
Means testing(1) is everywhere these days. It's in maintenance grants and child benefit, job-seeker's allowance and housing benefit and much more. Sometimes it seems that almost every new policy proposal…