Paul Buchanan at Transport Planning Society mileage-based road pricing debate
The recent Transport Planning Society debate was an informative and fascinating affair.TPS invited Gary Raccuja, last year’s winner of the Wolfson prize, to present and discuss his winning paper “Miles Better: Replacing Fuel Duty and VED with a Mileage-based Road Tax, collected by insurers”. Responding to Gary’s proposal were the former chair of the RAC […]
The social media battle against fake news has begun – beware your own emotions
Did Donald Tusk, the former Prime Minister of Poland and now president of the European Council, conspire with Vladimir Putin to murder the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski? Many Poles believe this preposterous story, I learned last week at a fascinating conference on social influence at the University of Warsaw. In 2010, a Polish Air […]
