There is much discussion about what can really be done by the UK that might harm Russian interests. Theresa May has backed herself into a
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Philip Hammond is to make an economic statement today. It is expected that he will say that the UK is in better economic health than
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I love this statement made by Charles Adams on Progressive Pulse today: [I]t is the pursuit of knowledge rather than the pursuit of wealth that
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The news that large companies are enjoying a steady decline in their real rates of tax, revealed by the FT, comes as no great surprise.
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The FT reported yesterday: Big multinationals are paying significantly lower tax rates than before the 2008 financial crisis, according to Financial Times analysis showing that
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The UK’s right wing press has been ‘over the moon’ because the government has finally balanced its current budget this year, meaning that borrowing is
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I tweeted last night, in response to growing concern over trade wars: William Keegan discusses a not dissimilar idea in the Observer this morning. As
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This comes from this morning’s CapX email. It’s written by Oliver Wiseman, and is published by the Centre for Policy Studies, a Thatcherite think tank:
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Martin Sandbu  argued in the FT yesterday that: Liberal democratic capitalism is on the defensive against illiberal nationalism because of three combined economic failures. One
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