With the world’s central banks again poised to enter an easing cycle, having scarcely begun to exit their last decade-long period of ultra-loose monetary [...]
What is happening to the climate? Predictions of imminent doom abound and have for a long time. Back in 2007, the International Panel on Climate Change [...]
Last month, the Institute for Fiscal Studies released its
annual report on poverty in the UK, entitled Living standards, poverty and
inequality in the UK: [...]
Environmentalism is sweeping Western democracies. Protest groups like Extinction Rebellion and the child doomsday prophet Greta Thunberg have captured the [...]
Students are not ideal borrowers. With low or no
income and few assets, they struggle to put up collateral and have historically
not been serviced well by the [...]
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is ready for power. While tearing itself apart over Brexit and antisemitism, the party has benefited from Brexit troubles in [...]
Democracy is having a bit of a crisis. The Brexit referendum has caused the biggest impasse in British politics for generations, with bids for a re-run of the [...]
The
old left and right are fading. For generations, the political divide was
between those who favoured small government, low taxes and free markets and
those [...]
A No-Deal Brexit has become the bogeyman in the public debate. The media is full of stories about food shortages, lack of medicine and mayhem at the borders. [...]
With the collapse of British Steel, the long running saga of
one of the last remnants of Britain’s once proud steel industry seems to have
come to an end. [...]