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 [...]
By Brian Monteith – 5 minute read EARLIER THIS YEAR the European Commission proposed a new law to halt deforestation and minimise the EU’s impact on forests worldwide. Its aim was to prevent beef, palm oil and other products linked to deforestation from being sold in the EU single market of 446 million consumers. But [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read THE LAST two weeks, since Kwasi Kwarteng’s now infamous budget, have perhaps been the most extraordinary in modern British political recollection. Truss and Kwarteng condemned, with almost religious like certainty, from a whole host of commentators from the IMF to Germany’s finance minister, from the usual suspects like the [...]
By Brian Monteith – 4 minute read UNTIL our government changes its mindset to do things differently from the EU we shall continue lazily to adopt its norms irrespective of whether or not they are appropriate to us. You probably did not know that last year the European Commission proposed a new law to halt [...]
