Andrew Willshire

Andrew Willshire is founder of the strategic analytics consultancy Diametrical.

Articles

Economics

Why are Britain’s doctors and binmen on strike?

How much would you pay a doctor if you urgently needed one – e.g., if you were having a heart attack? This is, of course, a trope familiar to anyone who pays attention to doctors striking over pay in the NHS. I am prepared to admit that I would pay a cardiologist rather a lot […]

Politics

Chasing the grey vote is a dead end for the Tories

Over the coming weeks, CapX will be running a number of perspectives on the future of the Conservative Party. If you have an idea you would like to contribute, get in touch at editors@capxstaging.wpengine.com. As Kemi Badenoch takes charge of the Conservative Party, she isn’t exactly short of worrying statistics about the struggle she faces […]

Economics

What’s the point of a Labour government if there’s no money to spend?

“History does not repeat itself but it rhymes” is an aphorism usually attributed to Mark Twain. It certainly holds true this week; the present is rhyming with the mid-1990s like William McGonagall on a particularly bad day.  An exhausted, fractious, wildly unpopular Conservative Party is crawling over broken glass towards a seemingly inevitable crushing defeat […]