Mitchell Palmer
Mitchell Palmer is an Economist at the Adam Smith Institute, based in London. He concurrently serves as a Senior Policy Advisor at the New Zealand Parliament.
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
