My last book The Spirit Level Delusion is now available on the Kindle at the throughly egalitarian price of £2.99. This is a second editio...

Yesterday, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the Better Life Index . This project aims to measure ...

The new chapter of The Spirit Level Delusion, containing updates and additional material is now available for free download . See the IE...

Over at Ep-ology , Carl Philips has turned his critical eye towards a subject close to my heart—the eye-watering, near-medieval pseudo-scien...

An anonymous commenter has alerted me to an article in the Financial Times   calling for an end to "propaganda disguised as science...

A good article by Sandy Starr about the argumentum ad peer review in Times Higher Education , which echoes what Brendan O'Neil wrote in...

Myths rarely turn into conventional wisdom overnight. Usually they evolve gradually, exaggerated and embellished in the retelling. But in th...

One of the most entertaining parts of Tony Blair's autobiography is his account of Labour's lurch to the left in the 1980s. Blair ad...

One of the few podcasts I subscribe to is BBC Radio 4's More or Less , which looks at the facts behind well publicised statistics. The s...

[This is a guest post by Rob Lyons, deputy editor of Spiked ]  Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett have made great play of the fact that Th...

This morning saw the launch of the Swedish edition of The Spirit Level Delusion and an accompanying debate. If you speak Swedish, you can w...

It's time to say hello to the Swedish visitors to this blog (yes, we have some). Hej! I greet you with the following message: Välkom...

Brendan O'Neil has written a great piece at Spiked on the subject of peer review (with a few quotes from me). The article was inspired ...

A quick word about the book with the green cover advertised on the right hand side of this blog. If you're wondering what it's about...

My new book, The Spirit Level Delusion will be launched at the Institute of Economic Affairs on Tuesday 11th May at 6.15 pm. You are very w...

For anyone who's just popped over from the Adam Smith Institute , there is an embryonic Spirit Level Delusion website here . Including:...

Anyone who believes that the age of innocence belongs to the past should read some of the reviews devoted to The Spirit Level: Why more equa...