Dr Allison Tedstone, Public Health England’s “Head of Diet and Obesity”, has recently proposed a new ‘Pudding Tax’ which would … Continue reading “Don’t trifle with our freedom – the case against the “Pudding Tax””

Despite the fact that there is little evidence for this proposition, it is widely held that deregulation of financial markets … Continue reading “Must financial regulation always come from the state?”

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell plans to put a pilot scheme for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) into the next Labour … Continue reading “Universal Basic Income – do the sums add up?”

Jeremy Corbyn’s BBC interview with Andrew Neil last week caught the headlines for its discussion of the Labour leader’s views … Continue reading “What Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t know about government debt”

The Institute of Economic Affairs’ Ryan Bourne, Nerissa Chesterfield, and Diego Zuluaga explain how today’s implementation of the National Living … Continue reading “The National Living Wage: Jeopardising 60,000 Jobs”