Nationalisation: Good Bye Lenin, and a Misplaced ‘Nostalgia Chic’ — Be Careful What You Wish for
Nationalisation: Good Bye Lenin and a misplaced ‘nostalgia chic’ — be careful what you wish for A striking feature of the 2017 UK election campaign is the Labour Party’s substantial agenda of nationalisation, which extends from rail to energy and water. It is the most...
The US Budget Fiscal 2018: The President Proposes and Congress Will Dispose
President Trump has now sent a full budget message to Congress. This fleshes out the proposals published in March in the so-called ‘skinny budget’, which were pretty sketchy, and only covered funds that were appropriated rather than mandated. A transforming ambition...
Theresa May’s Leadership and the Post-Brexit Conservative Opportunity: creating a popular people’s party
Brexit was an electoral earthquake that has transformed the British political landscape. It has given Theresa May the opportunity to reunite the Conservative Party and the wider centre-right spectrum of the electorate. Considering the splits over Europe of the last 30...
The cost of cutting immigration
So how big is the bill for the Government’s “objective” to reduce immigration to “tens of thousands”? The Office of Budgetary Responsibility’s (OBR) long term projections on the apparent fiscal benefit of high immigration are being used to beat ministers over the head...
