In the latest Cormoran Strike detective series, Lethal White, on BBC One, Strike’s assistant Robin Ellacott switches from commuting by Tube to cycling into work. This, according to the series, has done wonders for her mental health. One can’t help…
It’s not a good time to be young. The generation gap is so wide that ‘luxury’ housing developers could even start building there – fleecing students for 80% of their income, no doubt. Cynicism is an easy philosophy to adopt…
I don’t believe that governments can successfully replace or provide more positive economic outcomes and freedoms than private enterprise. In short, I’m an advocate of free market economic policies. I’m aware some examples can counter this view, but broadly I…
Between April and June, the UK economy reeled from its biggest slump on record, amidst the economic repercussions from Covid-19. Over a decade on from the financial crash of 2008, Britain is now set to enter a second unprecedented recession…
On November 8, 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States. He promised a radical departure from the way his predecessor had dealt with the Great Depression in the form of a ‘New Deal’ – a series…
You may say that Britain’s current industrial strategy is that they don’t have one. Many pro-market economists like to repeat the famous (amongst policy-wonks, at least) phrase: government is bad at picking winners, and losers are good at picking governments.…
While the focus of the news this past week has been very much placed on Dominic Cummings, and his lack of penalisation by the Prime Minister, there’s been another issue that’s starting to reveal itself. In the Liaison Committee, Caroline…
The first signs of a catastrophic economic collapse are being seen across the news as we head into May. Putting millions of staff at risk, and risking £50bn a year of vital investment in the economy at a time where…
A post-COVID de-globalised world could cause an existential threat to emerging economies that are hampered by large dollar debts, weak institutions and no safety net During the Spanish Flu, the majority of the coverage on the pandemic focused on the…