Madsen Pirie
Dr Madsen Pirie is President of the Adam Smith Institute.
This too shall pass
People want their pre-covid lives back. It falls on the vigilant to make sure that happens
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars