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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.

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.

WITH ALL EYES focused on COVID and its associated costs in lives and treasure, another much more deadly and morbid affliction threatens to sink our

TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS start not with a big bang but a whimper. Our lives are busy, events are fleeting and so all too often discoveries are

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

Dr Tim Rideout, an economist and the convener of the Scottish Currency Group, had an article published in The National on 18th May under the title “Claim banks would flee

AN OPEN LETTER that appeared in The Sunday Times Scotland calling on the Scottish Government to rule out plans for a referendum breaking up the UK has