A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin. Last week’s Spring Statement decision to cut the benefits of the weakest…
15 Apr, 2025
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26 Mar, 2025
Spring Statement: ‘Rachel Reeves Must Remember What Labour Is Actually For’
Unless the Labour party reconnects with its founding economic mission, they will merely lay the ground for a Nigel Farage Government. Who would want to be in Rachel Reeves’ shoes,…
23 Sep, 2022
Liz Truss is returning to the fairytale economics of the 1980s
Excessive Inequality and wealth redistribution to the rich have wrecked the economy. 'Trussonomics' won't help. Our new prime minister has already set out her primary economic principles. Although a £90bn…
30 Aug, 2022
The Conservative Counter-Revolution in Britain and America 1980-2020
In The Conservative Counter-Revolution in Britain and America 1980-2020 I consider whether there is any overarching explanation for the main political, economic and social changes in the major Anglophone countries over the…