The UK government’s recent digital ID consultation contains a detail that should have triggered far more alarm than it did. Ministers are proposing a national identity system built around a biometric image […]
The analysis of emission taxes and trading in the electricity market is a classic example of how the simple analytical models of economic theory get misapplied. Variants of the UK’s Emission Trading […]
In response to a comment left under an article, Tom Jefferson explains that Baroness Heather Hallett’s pantomime, which is officially known as the UK Covid Inquiry, ignored science and evidence. “Until this […]
Elizabeth Fry, a Quaker minister and prison reformer, visited Newgate prison in 1813 and was appalled by the conditions, leading to her campaign for prison reform. Her efforts resulted in the reform […]
Essex Police has paused its use of live facial recognition after a Cambridge study found the system was statistically more likely to correctly identify black people than other ethnic groups, and more […]
Politicians who cut “renewable energy” subsidies saved the USA’s power grid by incentivising reliable generation which was having its operating revenue looted by subsidised, unreliable solar and wind. “The politicians who cut […]
The Spanish government has launched a “hatred and polarisation footprint” to monitor social media users. Monitoring “hate” is one of the hallmarks of a totalitarian regime. “The mix of moralism, technocracy and […]