When I wrote on this blog many years ago, many of the posts commented on contemporary American politics. I was interested by the constitutionality of the Affordable Healthcare Act, by… Read More »Why I’m not writing about the 2020 election
I last posted on this blog in 2014. It is long past time that I should have written an update. My career has taken a few extremely unconventional turns since… Read More »What have you been doing?
I have had a very busy eighteen months, and am currently a Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. I have been writing a lot in other places, but this… Read More »A Return
On the front page of today’s Times is an article that, when I first read it, I thought might be an April Fool. It was a story about the condemnation… Read More »On childhood, learning and Google
Whenever awful shootings occur in the United States, the various responses are predictable. There will be some half-hearted attempt to discuss the regulation of firearms, and some discussion of American… Read More »Violence
I thought it was worth giving a fairly detailed summary of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the ACA, but the nature of such a summary does not really allow for… Read More »Victory and Defeat
Just under a month ago I wrote this piece on the problem that litigation concerning the Affordable Care Act posed to the Supreme Court. They ruled on this issue last… Read More »Semantics and Politics
During the recent debate over health-care reform in the United States and since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commentators in the USA have frequently compared… Read More »Health Facts
The problem for supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is that the core principle of the 1787 Constitution is the idea of ‘limited government’.
I’ve recently been putting together some material to help students write their essays. Here are three of the flaws that appear in history essays that also annoy me greatly when… Read More »Writing to give information