Recommended reading

• Compassionate government-run (but I repeat myself!) health care: waiting times up are up in the UK due to budget cuts (apparently money is finite, who knew?), and in one extreme example two people actually died in an ambulance while waiting for care.

• A new World Bank working paper has reached a pretty stunning conclusion. Well, obvious to some of us...

• Ed Crane points out that contrary to what many on the left believe, we're actually not all in this together. The people most fond of equating the country with a family usually desire the role of the parents.

• A look at how visa restrictions harm the US economy.

• A short video on the insanity of the drug war and civil asset forfeiture laws.