By Ewen Stewart – 4 minute read WE CAN ALL AGREE that even in a democracy, with an unwritten constitution, certain actions are beyond what would be reasonable for any Government to do. It would of course be unacceptable to close schools for months on end when the risk of fatality to school children was [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 4 minute read AS WE FACE challenges that I should have thought beyond comprehension just a few years ago, with a deliberately increasingly totalitarian and morally bankrupt State crushing liberties that for centuries we have been privileged to enjoy, in this formerly blessed land, how should we this Christmas respond? As [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 7 minute read BRITAIN SHOULD BE BOOMING. Our economy is structurally biased to globally growing industries from financial and professional services to elite education, from media and cultural assets to racing cars, from bio and medical technology to logistics, from niche engineering to tourism. These are all industries growing more rapidly [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about the Budget. Justifiably almost none of it good. It would be easy to pick fault with the poor record of the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) in modelling the UK economy, but LSE Professor and OBR member David Miles does a good job of explaining why [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 7 minute read WE FACE A CRISIS born out of serial material errors over many years and short-term fixes designed to kick the can down the road. Today’s Autumn Statement compounds the error. It not only raises taxes to an unprecedented peace time level but it fails utterly to address the [...]
