Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of Singapore, is dead at the age of 91, and across the globe writers, academics and world leaders are reliving his achievements and wondering at the legacy he left behind him. President Obama called him “a true giant of history,” while UN chief Ban Ki-moon said he was a “legendary figure […]
It was the summer of 2005, and I was fourteen years old. The sixth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was due to come out in just two days’ time, and my sister and I had not stopped arguing for a week. The problem was simple. My mother, who was adamantly against […]
Are cats really natural libertarians? David Leyonhjelm, the Australian Liberal Democratic party senator for New South Wales, certainly thinks so. Writing in the Guardian on Thursday, he says (with observation to his own cats) that “they are all individuals and refuse to identify with groups”, and concludes “Cats will accept being equal, but nothing less […]
Whether it’s Ed Miliband waging war against business, or the in-out EU debate which has industry leaders on both sides of the argument championing their cause, British business is once again a headline story. And it is booming: there has been a record 6.7% increase in the number of businesses since 2013, and 51% since […]
Last year, in preparation for International Women’s Day, the Washington Post published a map of where female participation in the workforce is highest, colour-coding countries from red (lowest) to blue (highest). The results were mostly predictable: the UK, the US, Canada and Australia are all safely blue, with over 55% of working-age women in the […]
Yanis Varoufakis isn’t playing games. He’s been very clear about that. The Greek finance minister, whose resumé includes teaching Economic Theory at the University of Athens and designing the virtual economy of online gaming platform Steam, is not using game theory to gain the upper hand in negotiations between Greece and the European Troika. He […]
In December, Tory MEP and CapX contributor Daniel Hannan described how Norway beats the EU. He argued that Norway offers “a handy example of how a country can prosper by having a free-trade relationship with the EU instead of joining the Brussels political institutions,” and debunked the claims of the pro-EU lobby that Norway’s strategy couldn’t possibly […]
At the moment, all conversations about licencing and regulating occupations seem to revolve around Uber. While governments across the world fret about safety concerns and the ‘unfairness’ towards conventional taxis, consumers are taking full advantage of the lower prices and increased competition Uber has injected into the market. Much as taxi drivers protest (and they […]
Timeline 1994 – North Korean leader Kim Il Sung dies. A national mourning period dictated. A statement from the Korean Central News Agency says: “He turned our country, where age-old backwardness and poverty had prevailed, into a powerful Socialist country, independent, self-supporting and self-reliant.” That year, North Korea experiences a famine that lasts half a […]
Healthcare innovation is not all about new miracle drugs that will be able to cure every cancer or eliminate the risk of heart disease. Although pharmaceutical advancements are certainly crucial, they are the solution to just one small part of the challenges facing the global healthcare industry today: aging populations in developed nations, high population […]
The space industry is in shock after Antares, a rocket developed by the Orbital Sciences Corporation, crashed unexpectedly on Tuesday. We do not yet know why, but so far the focus has been on the damage, and how much time and money are needed to repair it. Expect outcries that this is what happens when […]
