Not a blog post and it's old, but well worth reading. Why recycling wastes time, money and resources.
Another highly counter-productive endeavour: raise the tax on alcopops and alcohol consumption rises 10%.
Something a little different: an apparently sensible and worthwhile thing to do about matters environmental and fuel poverty.
Something very much not sensible being suggested over the pond on the same matters.
A good question: if paternalism, even of the libertarian kind, is such a good idea, why don't we have food rationing?
Adventures in the European subtitling industry.
And finally, yes, fabulous idea but Netsmith is holding out for the four rasher, two eggs and toast version.