The Ideas Universe
Chesterton's fence: the quote always stops one line too early
No. 2
The run so far
More on First Principles
- Nobody Can Tell You What It CostsIn six hours on a single Wednesday, one bus fare cap cost £500 million, then £454 million, and was both fully funded and not yet worked out. No outlet invented a figure. That is what makes it serious.
- The Package DealLearn a stranger's view on net zero and you can make a fair guess at their view on Gaza. Nothing logical connects the two. Something else does - and it is not thinking.
- The Lifeboat ProblemHelp that refuses every limit is not more generous than help that sets one. It is help that destroys the thing doing the helping. The honest humanitarian names a number, and mourns the people outside it.