Blog - Adam Smith Institute

A boy out on the cliffs has a conversation with his virtual tutor, whom he calls Robbie. The boy has no instrument; he simply talks to it out loud, asking questions. This is a snippet of their conversation.

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The wind came in off the sea in long, slow pushes. Callum sat...

Tim Lang and others return to The Guardian to insist that there really must be a National Food Strategy to, well, to be a national strategy about food we suppose.<...

There are many ways in which we can make it easier for families to care for members needing social care by giving support at home instead of in care homes.

Practical support measures might include direct payments and personal budgets. We could give families control over a care budget that lets them hire flexi...

There is that concept that if only those who truly know - the Rolls Royce minds in Whitehall - were to really think about things then and therefore we’d all be told the right things to do. A - not the only, but a - problem with this idea is that said RR thinking can - will be, perhaps - infected by Bernard Levin’s Single Issue Fanatic. Which wil...

Ted Honderich wrote a book called ‘Conservatism’ (first published 1990), arguing that conservatism amounts to nothing but self-interest by another name. The common factor that unites all conservatives, he contended, is that they will do and say pretty much anything to protect their own interests. In other words, they are not prepared to sacrific...