Predictably, everyone has been pretty outraged by the new (and now deleted) advert encouraging people to retrain and get a job in ‘cyber’. If you haven’t seen it, the ad (which features both HM government and CyberFirst logos) depicts a…
They say that money makes the world go round. After the government’s recent ban on schools teaching material associated with anti-capitalist organisations, I don’t think anyone will be saying different anytime soon. Although the minutiae of the ban are not…
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…