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 [...]
THE Northern Ireland Protocol mess was not created by Liz Truss. Yet it risks undermining her entire premiership if not decisively dealt with by her likely Government in its first few weeks. When Liz Truss introduced the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill back in June, the EU gave our Government an ultimatum: fall into line by [...]
WHILE MOST PEOPLE are worried about coming shortages: fuel, food and even water, there are still some members of the Twitter fraternity worried about surpluses. Specifically gluts of agricultural products – or what most of us would call ‘food’ – being imported into the UK from Australia and New Zealand. Increased supply of food usually [...]
By Catherine McBride – 5 minute read WHILE MOST PEOPLE are worried about coming shortages: fuel, food and even water, there are still some members of the Twitter fraternity worried about surpluses. Specifically gluts of agricultural products – or what most of us would call ‘food’ – being imported into the UK from Australia and [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read IT USED TO BE that governments understood that economic prosperity was hard won and a result of nurturing the private sector, encouraging enterprise and spending and taxing prudently. They understood that some deficit financing (spending a bit more than the tax receipts raised) might be appropriate occasionally but broadly [...]
