Some people ask what the point was of the Commonwealth Trade Ministers meeting here in London last week – the first ever. After all the Commonwealth is not a trade bloc and never will be. What interest could the UK have in such a disparate group? Such doubters miss an absolutely fundamental point. What they […]
What is missing from Piketty’s whole thesis, and from the views of many others in this field, is the potential – which he largely ignores – for spreading the ownership of capital itself more equitably in society. Instead of further attacking income with blunt and dubiously effective tax weapons, a much nobler, and more practical […]
It was going to be one of the great themes of the Thatcher era, a key part of what we saw as the coming freedom. All through the seventies, and as far back as the late sixties, we toiled in the Conservative backrooms trying to give real momentum and depth to the cause of popular […]
