The relationship between administrative systems and family well-being is long established. IDDE have shown recently working with the Heritage Foundation the marked correlation between strong electoral input and economic freedom, with the not unnatural result GDP per capita is...
A few weeks ago there was one of those 'storm in teacup rows which somehow capture the imagination. An eminent violinist, Kwa Wha Chung, a lady of great ability and old world Asian courtesy was driven to exasperation by...
Fifteen years ago I wrote an aide memoire on speed cameras & their futility on road safety, I co-authored it with an old fashioned traffic cop when I was in office. Subsequently I was asked to be...
It grieves me deeply to have to write this piece, I am a staunch monarchist as are my forbears & extended family, I hold the Queen’s Commission as did my father & have written extensively in the...
Many years ago now, or so it seems, at the height of the Cold War my commanding officer had the foresight to enrol some of his junior officers on a Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst post graduate Soviet Studies course...
As a not infrequent visitor to Hindustan, that market place wandering cow, grazing on cut flowers and fruit on the market stalls is an amusing and rather endearing sight. No great damage is done to the sub continent's economy...
I am & have been a London clubman most of my life. I have been accused of being a Wodehousian character over the years, I am happy with that, his characters, even the villains are never all...
Whenever I lecture in America on my style of libertarianism I come under pressure from student fundamentalists who feel a traditional libertarian is the ultimate oxymoron. I argue again here today that tradition,especially legal tradition in England, has its...
The 65th birthday is something of a marker by society, it means you are officially old. You can, of course, kid yourself it is the new forty, you are in late middle age, but you are not. You have...
Let me make something clear at the outset of this article. I am a bitcoin supporter, I own bitcoin & the concept is brilliant & I have supported & observed it for years. Glad I got that...