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Are Women “Worth Less” To City Firms?
Reece Warren argues for a different approach to correcting any perceived imbalance in the cost-risk-productivity equation that must be considered by any employer Let me first make something absolutely clear – you can throw
Read More »Truly Free Markets Must Permit Discrimination
Freedom to enter into contracts includes the freedom to refuse, on any grounds. Libertarians and Classical Liberals will quickly and enthusiastically tell you of the benefits of free markets and liberty; lower taxes, more
Read More »Why libertarians shouldn’t support the right of religion to opt-out of same-sex marriage
I’m going to hold my hands up here – I don’t really care about freedom of religion. I’m an atheist, I don’t think religion provides a net positive contribution to the world, I think
Read More »Sexism Against Men Does Exist
I don’t want to undermine or ignore the fact that sexism against women pervades all aspects of society: it still exists in education, employment, politics, domestic life and in every day social situations. It
Read More »Two Reasons to Support Immigration
Contrary to the paranoia expressed by anti-immigration groups such as Migrant Watch UK, there are good reasons to support immigration in the UK. One reason is based on libertarian principles. The other reason is
Read More »Stanford University Law School and Religious Liberty
(Photograph by Eric Chan) Walter Block discusses why forcing firms to make special arrangements to fulfil religious sensibilities of employees violates their rights. Pretty much any law school worthy of its bias toward left-liberalism
Read More »The Timely Death Of Universalism
The State enforced sense of oneness has had its day. There has been much ado about universalism this week. The idea that everyone should benefit from the welfare state is not, however, universally popular.
Read More »Losing Faith in Schools
According to the British Humanist Association there are currently 7000 state funded faith schools in the UK, mostly Christian, but all are legally allowed to discriminate on the basis of religion. Furthermore, all
Read More »UKIP Foster Scandal: How A Worrying Precedent Might Be Set
Peter Taylor, There is much more than initially meets the eye to the case of a couple who foster having their three current children taken away for voting UKIP. I believe that this is
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