
Some inheritance – 24 years on, decline is everywhere
WE ALL SUFFER selective amnesia, ‘rose tinted glasses’ if you like. For instance, the past may be a foreign land and I recall it sort

WE ALL SUFFER selective amnesia, ‘rose tinted glasses’ if you like. For instance, the past may be a foreign land and I recall it sort

I AM NOT a regular reader of the New Statesman but occasionally it’s worth enquiring into the strange world of the left-liberal mind. I was

THIS WEEK the ONS published its monthly employment data to a fanfare of approval. Unemployment is close to a 50-year low – employment participation rates

JEREMY HUNT’S Budget misses the point and does not address the underlying declining competitiveness of the UK economy. It fails to tackle the root of

THE SHEER cynicism of our Prime Minister is quite something. The Windsor Framework indeed! More like the Duke of Windsor Framework. Something that should have

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

THIS IS 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

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

MAKE NO MISTAKE, we face an economic crisis. The view that is being curated is that all was relatively fine until those right-wing barbarians, Truss

HER LATE MAJESTY the Queen, even in death, astonishes us. While I suspect many predicted large crowds, in an age of alleged rationality, globalism and

IT IS NOW almost six years since the UK voted to leave the EU and two years since our formal withdrawal. One will recall that

THERE ARE TWO organisations in Scotland that were once all powerful but today are on the brink of collapse. Both were pillars of the Scottish