THE SHORT ANSWER is your guess is as good as mine, save for raising yet more tax. Rachel Reeves has claimed there is a £22bn
THE UK’s relative and material economic decline can be pinpointed almost exactly to the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) starting in 2008. As
THIS WILL BE the first in a short series of essays leading up to the budget exploring the current state of the UK economy. The
FOR THOSE who don’t know her, Liz Webster is a keyboard warrior on behalf of the unofficial rejoin movement. She is, if anything prolific, but
THE OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility) published its annual report evaluating its fiscal forecasting record last month. The report doesn’t mention Brexit specifically but does
ROCKETING ENERGY PRICES, exacerbated by the illegal war in Ukraine, have hit people and businesses across the UK, especially those that are highly dependent on
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
IN ITS USUAL distemper brush rhetorical approach, the Scottish Government claims it wants to “promote a culture of entrepreneurship that will help to grow and
IT SEEMS like Scotland’s salmon farms have bounced back after Covid. After years of struggle with Brexit uncertainty, the cost-of-living crisis, soaring energy costs and
DEFORESTATION is often cited as a significant, if not the major, contributor to environmental damage to our planet. It harms both our flora and fauna
THE LAW establishing the SNIB requires an advisory board to be established to provide “advice on the Bank’s objects, conduct and performance”. More than two
THIS IS A TALE of how the EU uses regulations, quotas and tariffs to erect a Fortress Europe that, by protecting its inefficient and unsustainable