The purpose of a movie is to tell a story. In the case of United 93, written and directed by Paul Greengrass and to be released tomorrow, its story is one that the whole world lived on September 11th, 2001. The most blatant terrorist attack in recent history, it was an assault upon […]

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Edward Garnier, the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs, recently expressed his view that imprisoning criminals “is hugely expensive and not working.” Hugely expensive is not the same as too expensive, but Mr Garnier reckons the £37,000 per prisoner per year is too much to pay. Unfortunately citing a statistic does not a cogent argument make. […]

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Three unconnected stories in the Times newspaper recently illustrated perfectly what is wrong with modern charity. I present these cases as a sort of 3-in-1 blog.
(1) Gordon Hood
What is the purpose of government? To my libertarian mind the function of government is, put crudely, to protect the fundamental rights of its citizens (using rights in […]

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My backyard faces out to the massive desert landscape of the American SouthWest (controlled by the Federal Bureau of Land Management). You could leave through my gate into the desert and start walking, and not find ANYTHING but desert for a few hundred miles.
What a great place to blow stuff up.
Halfway across […]

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I’ve completed filing my US tax return, which is due on Monday for all 136 million of us eligible working adults who haven’t requested an extension from the IRS. I feel outrage at having to comply with such a behemoth taxation system, but not nearly as much as I should.
There are three main ways […]

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