What should parking pay for?
Away from the big picture of world trade and globalisation, let’s look at the important issue of parking charges. What should it cost to park a car outside your house? […]
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transport policy
When panic-buying makes sense
The queues outside petrol stations last week tell us something important about the way politics is conducted in this country (or, for that matter, anywhere else). The lesson is that
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Incident on the A598
This is the story of an accident. It wasn’t a bad one, but it could have been, and it set me thinking. I was pushing my daughter in her buggy
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Wrong on so many levels
Who says this website is narrow-minded? We leap from the crisis afflicting western capitalism to the question of how a young girl travels to school: federalism has something to say
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Speed costs
Another example emerged today of how national borders get in the way of fighting crime. This time, the crimes are speeding and parking offences. There has been an influx into
Speed kills
Your blogger was required to attend a speed awareness course last night, having been caught by a speed camera two months ago and wanting not to acquire any penalty points.
The wisdom of crowds
One of the intellectual fashions of the moment is crowd-sourcing, that is the idea that good ideas and useful information can come from the population as a whole rather than
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Is Heathrow airport getting too big
A major transport initiative such as the proposed new runway and terminal building at Heathrow airport, announced yesterday, provoke mixed feelings from a federalist perspective. Aside from the considerations of
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Which government for Europe? Some reflections on the idea of limited government
By Richard Laming In the discussion about the future government of Europe, I want to offer a few remarks not on what the EU should do, but on what it
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Brussels’ glaring stupidity
Read an exchange in the Financial Times between Matthew Engel and Professor Tim Buthe, of the Center for European Studies, Duke University, North Carolina, on the way in which technical standards
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