Mark Brolin

Mark Brolin is a political analyst, economist and author.

Articles

Politics

How the Conservatives can win again

The unfashionable truth about Margaret Thatcher is that she was never a radical. She was in fact Britain’s great counter-radical – the leader who hauled politics back from establishment extremism posing as moderation. By the late 1970s, the establishment ‘wets’, both within Conservative and Labour, had incrementally normalised endless subsidies, 83p tax rates and government-by-stoppage […]

Ideas

Ignore the doomsayers: capitalism is saving the planet

Psychologists largely agree that we all live with an inner pessimist. Why? Because for most of human history, reacting to danger – real or perceived – was essential for survival. This has left us biologically wired to overreact to threats and underreact to good news, which helps explain why emotional, end-of-the-world-style stories tend to stick […]