Flying to Scotland from Southampton on a fine day recently, my eye soon picked up the brown streak across southern … Continue reading “Could HS2’s route be put to better use?”

Railways as we know them are 200 years old this year. An invention in which Britain takes much pride and … Continue reading “Gravy-Trains”

By David Starkie, author of Airport Enterprises and formerly a member of the Airport Commission’s panel of experts Before World War 2, … Continue reading “The Chancellor’s growth reset: a missed opportunity?”

This article was first published on  ConservativeHome following the original version on IEA Insider The existing economic framework of the … Continue reading “Regional economic disparities across the UK are proof of a failure of policy”

Over 40 years ago, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) established its technical Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP). Today, … Continue reading “Why the carbon emissions from passenger air travel are likely overstated”

At the end of February Kristian Niemietz cast an eye over Michael Gove’s announcement of a revised policy intending to … Continue reading “Oiling the cogs of growth: Gove’s office conversion plans”

When Harold Macmillan was Housing Minister in Churchill’s post-war administration, over 300,000 houses were built in a single year, a … Continue reading “Office conversion: an opportunity to boost the supply of urban residential housing”

It is difficult for an economist to argue against the basic idea of the Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone … Continue reading “An overlooked side effect of ULEZ?”

Off the radar, because it was announced eighteen months ago, April saw a major change in taxation of travel by … Continue reading “How the tax system distorts the travel industry”