Just like baggy jeans, it’s fashionable once again to be concerned about the public finances. For years, politicians tricked themselves into believing that low interest rates would continue in perpetuity, making the national debt little more than a very large number on a screen, without actual real-world ramifications. The spending taps could be turned back […]
With the new Labour government having already announced the establishment of a number of new quangos, we thought it would be a good idea to keep an eye on where our politicians are ceding power. That’s why each month, William Yarwood will update us with the most egregious examples of how arm’s length bodies are […]
With the new Labour government having already announced the establishment of a number of new quangos, we thought it would be a good idea to keep an eye on where our politicians are ceding power. That’s why each month, William Yarwood will update us with the most egregious examples of how arm’s length bodies are […]
According to YouGov, two in ten Britons say that immigration is the biggest issue facing the country. And with immigration now at unprecedented levels, who can blame them?Net migration has hit a record high of 745,000, while illegal immigration is up 17% from the year ending June 2022, with 85% of these arriving via small […]
Labour’s announcement that they will renationalise nearly all passenger rail services within their first five years of government has been received positively by the usual suspects. The Guardian has come out praising it as a ‘sensible plan that passengers need’ citing the failure of railway privatisation as ‘a glaring failure of the Tory ideological fixation […]
