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
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour