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The Optimal Level of Bad Things is Generally Not Zero
Pollution is terrible. Practically everybody agrees on this. It’s causing climate change, driving the extinction of entire species, and is really bad…
Jul 17
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Ben Ramanauskas
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How to Reform Prisons
The new government has inherited a prison crisis. The closure of prisons and the failure to build new ones means that there is simply not enough space…
Jul 9
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Ben Ramanauskas
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Why I'm Voting for the Lib Dems
As he hurtled towards the ground while attached to a bungee cord, Sir Ed Davey shouted that you should do something different for the first time: vote…
Jul 2
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Ben Ramanauskas
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June 2024
In Defence of Dodgy PPE Contracts
Would you pay £1,000 for a bottle of water?
Jun 27
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Ben Ramanauskas
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Rejoining the EU Would be a Waste of Time
It has been reported that Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have concluded that rejoining the Single Market at Customs Union would be the most…
Jun 25
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Ben Ramanauskas
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Tories for Autarky
It feels like a lifetime ago but in reality it was just over four years ago since the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a speech at the Old Royal…
Jun 22
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Ben Ramanauskas
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Labour's Radiohead Manifesto
No alarms and no surprises, please
Jun 14
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Ben Ramanauskas
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Tinker Failure Tory Why
We need more billionaires and fewer bankrupts
Jun 12
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Ben Ramanauskas
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The UK Economy, It's Very Sick
During the Tory Leadership Contest back in 2022 I wrote an article for The Critic on the Conservative Party’s nostalgia problem. Two years later the…
Jun 11
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Ben Ramanauskas
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Vice & Vice-Chancellors
Embracing the UK's problematic economy
Jun 10
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Ben Ramanauskas
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Ploughshares into Pipettes
The UK has an unhealthy obsession with farming. Romantic notions fuelled by H.E Bates novels and tv programmes about the lives of farming means that…
Jun 7
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Ben Ramanauskas
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Stop the Fiscal Arms Race
Jeremy Hunt has pledged that he would not make any changes to property taxes and has attempted to bait Rachel Reeves in matching his commitment. For two…
Jun 6
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Ben Ramanauskas
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