During the 2015 General Election, Ed Miliband’s flagship pledge to cap energy prices was derided by conservatives as a deranged … Continue reading “Let the market fix the housing problem”

The annual Budget is regarded as a grandstand event in the UK parliamentary year. This reflects our centralised political system. … Continue reading “Sins of omission: the problem with the Budget was what was NOT in it”

Pope Francis likes to talk about how we have created an “economy of exclusion.” For example, in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii … Continue reading “High housing costs are the single biggest driver of poverty in the UK”

“We do not believe in untrammelled free markets. We reject the cult of selfish individualism. We abhor social division, injustice, … Continue reading “Neither socialism nor ‘compassionate conservatism’ help the poor. Free markets do”

On Conservative Home, Paul Goodman defended Theresa May’s defence of the state as the entity that does good. When the … Continue reading “You want ‘the good that government can do’? You’ll get the bad as well”

Housing costs in the UK – both house prices and rents – are among the highest in the world. Since … Continue reading “To solve the housing crisis, we must take on NIMBYs and abolish the greenbelt”