By Simon Roberts Congratulations Simon!   It’s common today to hear politicians in the US and the UK say that the government should spend money in order to stimulate the economy. Their logic is that government projects create jobs, which means that more people have money to spend, and that this stimulates economic growth. Sounds […]

As an Englishman I have to admit that, like my compatriot Piers Morgan, I struggle to understand the American obsession with guns. Like Piers, I am greatly relieved that President Obama is going to do something about it. Great politicians throughout the ages have realised the folly of allowing huge swathes of their citizens to […]

Hurrah! Finally we can announce the winner of Bogpaper’s essay competition. The challenge, you may remember, was to describe in language even an idiot can understand why it is that government spending cannot magically create jobs or boost the economy. Here at Bogpaper Towers we were hugely impressed by the range and quality of the […]

Thanks to the overwhelming number of entries to James’ essay competition, we are only just coming to the end of reading all of your great submissions. Stay tuned later today to find out who the winner is! Ed.

A short while ago, a minor scandal erupted over comments made in a 1988 book by John O’Farrell, who was standing as the Labour candidate for the Eastleigh by-election. In his book, O’Farrell lamented the failure of the IRA to assassinate Margaret Thatcher in the 1984 Brighton bombing (and also expressed the wish that Britain […]

  Walking back from the pub last night I bumped into a strangely familiar character when I stopped off at a chip shop to buy a kebab. He was drinking from a bottle of something hidden within a brown paper bag and trying to order food from the bemused Turkish staff in a strange foreign […]

IN PRAISE OF NASTINESS At some point in the past couple of decades it seems to have been decided that being a ‘good’ person entitles you to tell everyone else how to live. Most of the things that make modern life intolerable, like high taxes, blundering bureaucracies and government nannying, are the logical conclusion of […]

This is my fault this has gone up so late. Mr Delingpole filed bang on time but I was in deepest darkest Bank Holiday mode and so wasn’t able to publish this for you all to enjoy. My apologies Queen of Bogpaper Towers According to Twitter, Richard E Grant is lighting up a Camberwell Carrot […]

Like Lehman Brothers before it, Cyprus may well come to be seen not so much as the cause of further crisis but as yet another symptom of the ‘long emergency’ that continues to suffocate the western economies. We would describe this emergency as, fundamentally, an inevitable crisis triggered by an unsustainable explosion of credit; western […]

Russell Taylor is a classical liberal who believes in low taxes and a small state, and holds the Left responsible for just about everything wrong in the world today. One of the obvious lessons of the Asian Tsunami of 2004 was that ramshackle coastal settlements don’t cope well with natural disasters. If the same waves […]