The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

There is a problem with "first past the post" electoral systems like the UK's. Population changes and movements between constituencies can make election results unfair at the national level. At present, constituencies with populations varying from 108,804 to 21,789 get to choose one MP each. Some of us are therefore severely short-changed in…

  Comedian Fined $42,000 for Telling a Joke | Heat Street. Can any Canadian reader explain to me how the "Quebec Human Rights Commission" acquired the power to fine a comedian for making a joke? I would be interested, especially if it involved an attempt to justify the power.

America has forgotten that Small is Beautiful I feel lucky to have lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. I never saw it coming. The bad guys in the Cold War seemed to have all the advantages and the abject grovelling of the West's politicians seemed to…

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/savers-lose-out-as-bank-cuts-interest-rates-to-0-25-8kdl8qxsp?shareToken=dad7c3ec8284b32778318c518061326e If you have worked hard and saved for your old age this is a bad day for you as the Bank of England bails out the feckless and the over-borrowed by reducing interest rates in a vain attempt to stimulate the economy by encouraging more feckless over borrowing as…