By Ewen Stewart – OH DEAR, I’ve just spent the last two minutes watching a video where Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt cheerfully explains what he thinks has caused inflation and what he’s doing about it. Don’t waste two minutes of your precious time on it. He blames everyone but himself for this crisis. He's wrong, here's why...
By Ewen Stewart – 4 minute read THIS WEEK the ONS published its monthly employment data to a fanfare of approval. Unemployment is close to a 50-year low – employment participation rates are rising – and so are wages. Lockdown can be forgotten. Apparently it's business as usual. Well at face value it’s hard to [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read JEREMY HUNT’S latest Budget misses the point and does not address the underlying declining competitiveness of the UK economy. It fails to address the root of the problem; substantial excess public spending, extraordinarily weak public sector productivity and a subsequent loss of tax competitiveness with more micro-management and [...]
By Ewen Stewart– 4 minute read THE SHEER cynicism of our Prime Minister is quite something. The Windsor Agreement indeed! More like the Duke of Windsor Agreement. Something that should have been exiled a long time ago. Sure, the problem dates to Theresa May and the Remain Parliament who, together, conspired to deliberately neuter Brexit at birth, [...]
WHILE THE Conservative Party indulges itself with a mammoth election bore lasting an extraordinary eight weeks – a process that any sane organisation could have arranged over perhaps three weeks in this digital age – Britain faces its greatest crisis, I would argue, since the Second World War. The crisis is not just energy and [...]
