There is a housing crisis in Britain. That reality is undeniable. At least you would think it is. Just a cursory glance at some of the basic facts should make this abundantly clear. In the 1960s we built 3.6m homes, while in the 2000s and 2010s we built around 1.5m homes a decade. Even as […]
Imagine if you had been told your whole life that the only way to succeed in life is to work hard, go to university and graduate with first class honours, only to find yourself in a low paid, non-graduate role with a mountain of debt you have no hope of ever paying off. That is […]
There’s no denying that the rise of online shopping has changed retail forever. Just how many times have you clicked ‘check-out’ to buy something in the last few months? Now compare that to a decade ago, or even just a few years ago. Internet sales as a total percentage of sales in the UK have […]
One of the few issues almost everyone agrees on is that Britain faces a serious housing crisis. The figures speak for themselves. As recently as 1996, 65% of those aged 25-34 owned their own home. Today, that figure is down to 41%. With data from yesterday highlighting how the average house price has reached another […]
Britain has some of the best universities in the world, but that doesn’t mean that taxpayers – a majority of whom never got the chance to take a degree – should shoulder an outsize burden for paying for them. Of course, both society and individuals benefit from an educated work force, and should share the […]
One of the most significant outcomes of Brexit has been regaining the right to negotiate independent free trade agreements. Despite having no experience in this area for more than 40 years, the UK has made impressive progress, rolling over more than 60 EU agreements and negotiating new ones with Japan and Australia. Last year the […]
At first glance British universities are a national success story. In under 30 years student numbers have increased fivefold with half of our youngsters now attending university, over a third graduating with a first-class honours. So highly regarded are our universities that international students flock in their hundreds of thousands each year to attend them, […]
Less than two weeks after signing the Armistice in 1918, David Lloyd George gave a speech promising a country ‘fit for the heroes who have won the war’. He identified housing as key to fulfilling this promise and just months after winning re-election the house-building began in earnest. By the mid-30s, some 3 million houses […]
Inflation has been a thing of the past so long that it is easy to forget the brutal economic hardships of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s in the UK. Yet inflation is currently growing at its fastest rate in nearly 40 years prompting the outgoing Bank of England’s chief economist, Andy Haldane, to warn […]
