WAS PRESIDENT CLINTON right? He thought by enabling China to join the World Trade Organisation in 1999 they would cease their authoritarian ways and become
THREE significant things have happened recently for those interested in preserving the integrity of the United Kingdom. Firstly, Nicola Sturgeon failed by a whisker to
THE NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE has estimated additional public spending directly attributable to Covid-19 to May 2021 to be a staggering £372bn. As we are now into
IN PART FIVE of this series (link here) I wrote about the growing inflationary risk fuelled primarily by a perfect storm of massive fiscal expansion
RISHI SUNAK has been lauded generally by the media. Many ascribe him with an economic and fiscal sureness of hand which is hard to fathom.
IN PREVIOUS articles (see below) I have outlined the clear inefficiency of the public sector. The bang for the buck is lamentable. Don’t take my
IN PART 5 of this series I looked at inflationary risk. In this short essay I look at a further factor and perhaps underappreciated force
ON MY TRAVELS the vexed subject of inflationary risk splits professional investors more than any other subject. In one camp lies the inflation sceptics who
THIS GOVERNMENT has chosen to try and grow the economy though public sector stimulus. Largely a result of the lockdown public spending increased by a
IN THE THIRD of my mini-series examining the economic challenges facing the UK I look at ‘levelling up,’ the policy goal central to this Government’s
YESTERDAY I launched a mini-series looking at the challenges the UK economy faces. Today we start to look at some of the solutions. I outlined our
GIVEN THE SCALE of the challenges Britain faces, from the erosion of liberty and even free speech, to the threat of the possible break-up of