I came across the video from the i linked to below and wondered how much the assertion that the UK has never had such a malign nexus, of high inflation, high interest rates and high consumer debt. I was shocked at the Schroders report that the price to income ratio…

As a member of the AEIP National Committee, I have been campaigning to reverse Brexit. The personal politics that led me to stand for their NC is based on both an abstract commitment to what the EU could be and a detailed observation of the economic and social advantages of…

Kier Starmer rearranges the desk chairs and announces a Labour Shadow Cabinet reshuffle. Most, including Phil BC, with whom I agree, see this as a shift to the right of the Party. The demotion of Ashworth and his replacement with Kendall is a move to the right on policy grounds…

In this article, “Britain’s tax delusion”, the ‘Statesman identifies that the UK is not overtaxed, that taxing non-doms and imposing VAT on school fees will raise trivial amounts of money and that the clawback of child benefit has a disincentive on the supply of effort. It is silent on the…

I have just read Jonathn Portes’ review of Peter Foster’s book “What Went Wrong With Brexit?”. Foster was a Remainer, despite following in the footsteps of Boris Johnson as the Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent. Portes looks at the economic damage, the under investment in human capital and the continued timidity of…

In the linked video, Michael Pocock, a lawyer correspondent on the Meidas Network expresses his delight at Baude and Paulsen’s white paper, “ The Sweep and Force of Section 3” which argues that the 14thamendment to the Constitution prohibits Donald Trump from holding any federal office, including that of President…

It is clear that Labour’s leadership are executing the New Labour playbook with a touch of 20th century triangulation by pandering exclusively to communities that don’t vote for them and adding the practice of trolling those that do. …

I saw this in an article from “The New European”. Eleanor Longman-Rood of TNE reports, A fast-track visa route into the UK exclusively for prize-winning researchers has failed to be the big draw that the government had hoped. …

McKinsey have produced a report on the role of generative AI on productivity and the future economy. The white paper can be found on their website. They launched the paper with a series of webinars, one of which I attended. Here are my notes and thoughts … The first point…