According to Lord Ashcroft’s polls, it wasn’t immigration what won it. Rather, it was “the principle that decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK”. This was a democracy argument, and a democracy argument wider than critiques of how the EU’s institutions are structured. “Bureaucrats in Brussels”, “unelected commission”, “taking back control” – […]
Benjamin Franklin once said, “The only thing guaranteed in life is death and taxes”. We can all find ourselves moaning about taxes from time to time. But looking back on Britain’s tax history, here are 5 direct levies that we can be grateful about not having to pay for. 1. The window tax (or glass […]
Republican presidential candidate and serial outspoken TV personality, Donald Trump, has set out a cruel and wholly illiberal immigration plan. Putting the issue at the forefront of his campaign, in a laughable document the entrepreneur has vowed to deport illegal migrants, and even called for a wall around the border between Mexico and America. Here […]
Videos of farmers taking part in the ‘milk bucket challenge’ are circling the web, with dairy farmers drenching themselves in their produce to show how cheap milk has now become – a mimic of last summer’s ‘ice bucket challenge’. Supermarkets have come under fire following protests over below production cost prices for milk, with some demonstrators […]
Utrecht plans to experiment rolling out an unconditional basic income to a few of their welfare claimants by January 2016. Recipients will receive a basic income, set to be €900 for an adult per month, and €1,300 for a couple or family, with no restrictions on how it must be spent, unlike traditional welfare models. This will […]
The Office for National Statistics published their analysis on the UK labour market today, and compared to last year, employment and jobseeker’s claimant figures look positive. Although there are a few worries for the government with a slight increase in unemployment over the past two quarters, and the ONS saying the collected data proposes the high jobs […]
