Government attempts to break up monopolies do not work. — It would be nice if people on the right, who have lately decided Big Tech should be broken up by antitrust, would spend at least five minutes reading up on the history of antitrust before advocating it. It’s by no means clear that it would work. …

Can the party rescue Trumpism from Trump? — Fans of political theatre are going to enjoy watching the Republican Party over the next four years. There are entirely predictable cries from the usual idiots for Trump be impeached and imprisoned. These are the same people who, four years ago, said threatening to imprison losing presidential candidates was Fascist. …

If you’ve spent the last year making excuses for political violence you are at least as big a cause of today’s political violence as anything Trump tweets. Either violence is an acceptable form of political expression or it is not. It can’t be acceptable when you agree with the cause…

The horseman rides again. I suppose one really ought to salute his strength, his courage, and his indefatigability. None are so able, so reliable, so tireless in their defense of the indefensible as George Galloway. Mr Galloway appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Politics, ostensibly to defend the (second) Russian revolution…

What we gain in convenience we lose in power. Of all the issues on which politicians are demonstrably ill-suited to pronounce (and there are many), technology is the great leveller. From the President of the United States, who wants to ‘close that internet up in some ways’ in order to…

The law allows for exploitative practices. Uber is just a symptom. Transport for London announced yesterday that Uber will not have its licence renewed once it expires at the end of this month. A good deal of their case rests on concerns about ‘safety’. Let’s explore it. Those who are…

The smoking ban was paternalism in drag. Is this how we want to be governed? In my second week at university, on the first of my few trips to ULU (now Student Central), I attended a societies’ fair. For those unfamiliar with these strange annual events, this is where overeager…

Theresa May staked the fate of the nation on a game of Russian roulette, and promptly shot herself in the face. If Labour’s 1983 manifesto was ‘the longest suicide note in history’, what can we say of the Conservatives’ 2017 campaign? It was the most astounding feat of sheer lunacy…

We can’t. It’s too late. So strap yourselves in. ‘The first duty of government is the defense of its citizens’. This oft-repeated slogan is in fact a bastardization of a quote wrongly attributed to Thomas Jefferson. …