Section 106 is the sort of policy you will be forgiven for not having spent much time thinking about. It is an obscure piece of planning law, tucked away in the Town and Country Planning Act, and easy to ignore. That would be a mistake. If the Government is serious about its promise to deliver […]
Adam Smith attributed the ability of one man to do the work of many to the ‘invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour’. Writing at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, Smith witnessed one of the most profound reorganisations of human capital in history: the transition to mechanised production. The […]
Keir Starmer’s proposed digital ID scheme is misguided – yet even its fiercest critics should not be opposed to digital ID in principle. When done right, digital ID can make government more efficient, services faster and citizens’ lives easier. The problem lies not in digital ID, but in the British state’s attempt to control it. […]
