Jamie Whyte is a management consultant, a senior fellow of the Cobden Centre and author of Crimes Against Logic (McGraw Hill, 2004).
Jamie Whyte
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Wednesday 16th May 2012, 12:36am GMTSAUDI law prevents women from revealing their body in public. This prohibition is intended to protect Saudis from the lustful impulses that the Saudi authorities believe would overwhelm men if they... [Read more]
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Wednesday 9th May 2012, 12:39am GMTWHAT’S the deal? That is what any sensible person wants to know before investing or otherwise transacting. The terms may be stated but that is not enough. People also need to know that these terms... [Read more]
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Wednesday 2nd May 2012, 12:19am GMTIN A recent article, Times columnist Philip Collins implied that an individual’s income is really the collective property of all citizens. He did not use those words, of course. He is a former... [Read more]
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Wednesday 25th April 2012, 12:48am GMTTWO years ago, the Bank of England (BoE) predicted that GDP would today be growing at a rate of 2.5 per cent a year. It is in fact growing at 0.0 per cent or thereabouts. An economic forecaster... [Read more]
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Wednesday 18th April 2012, 12:58am GMTMY NEIGHBOUR Debbie buys Lotto tickets. At least, she pays for them. She deputises the job of going to the corner store and selecting the numbers to her ten-year-old son Wayne. Wayne receives a base... [Read more]
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Wednesday 11th April 2012, 12:08am GMTHIGH taxes encourage black markets. For example, ever increasing “sin taxes” mean that a large portion of the cigarettes and alcohol consumed in Britain is now bought in the black market, where these... [Read more]
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Wednesday 4th April 2012, 12:54am GMTBORIS Johnson wants to give the residents of London’s boroughs more say in how their neighbourhoods are policed. Boards of residents will suggest improvements to local police, monitor complaints from... [Read more]
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Wednesday 28th March 2012, 12:16am GMTYOU should not be able to buy political influence for £250,000. That is the consensus following the Conservative Party’s donations for access scandal. Well, then, how much should it cost? The popular... [Read more]
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Wednesday 21st March 2012, 1:43am GMTAPPLE has accumulated a “cash pile” of about $100bn. Until yesterday, when its chief executive, Tim Cook, announced a plan to pay out $45 billion in dividends, there was speculation about how the... [Read more]
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Wednesday 14th March 2012, 8:26am GMTVINCE Cable, the business secretary, wrote to the Prime Minister last week, lamenting the lack of a clear economic “vision”. He thinks the government must decide “how we will earn our living in the... [Read more]
Editor's Letter
Allister Heath
Government’s job is to shield UK taxpayers from Euro chaos
WHEN a country’s president warns that its banks are in danger, and reveals that depositors are pulling...
