‘You have two choices: you can weave baskets or work on a switchboard.’ Twenty years ago, that was the choice offered to me – a partially-sighted teenager whose sight was rapidly deteriorating – by the careers adviser at my secondary school. Decades later, after carving out a successful business career, I reflect on how different […]
The fact that there are currently over nine million adults in the UK economically inactive, including over 3m people on long-term disability benefits and nearly 1m people aged 16-24 not in employment, education or training, is a national scandal. Thinkers like Fraser Nelson have done an impeccable job at highlighting the explosion in inactivity since […]
Will it end with a bang or a whimper? Will Labour persist with their socialist policies despite their ruinous impact becoming all the more evident until a big crash in the 2029 election wipes out their majority? Or will economic reality force a change of course before then? Perhaps a bit of both. If we […]
Apparently, if you make up a measure, then you can make the number of that measure dance to your tune. Who knew, eh? Hence why the Social Metrics Commission (SMC) tells us that poverty is rising: The latest estimates, by the non-partisan Social Metrics Commission, show that the number of people in poverty has risen […]
With all the technological and medical advances we keep seeing, this should be a glorious era where all barriers to work are demolished. To a modest extent, we have seen this with people continuing to work as they get older. Men in the UK used to retire at 65 – finally eligible for a state […]
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