“Nobody advocates socialism anymore. It is now all just about reforming capitalism.” I must have heard this lazy cliché in … Continue reading “Attacks on Corbyn are a distraction – it is Corbynomics that needs tackling”

Tim Montgomerie, founder of the Good Right, a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute, the creator of the ConservativeHome website, a … Continue reading “In Conversation with Tim Montgomerie”

In mid-March, the The Guardian ran the headline: “Drought-stricken California only has one year of water left, Nasa scientist warns.” … Continue reading “Is California running dry?”

Perhaps there is one thing worse than somebody who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing – … Continue reading “It’s politicians, not prices, that need to be controlled”

Ed Miliband’s pledge last week that a Labour government would press ahead with the party’s energy price freeze ‘within months’ … Continue reading “Energy price controls have failed all over Europe”

Britain’s railways were privatised in the mid-1990s. This did not however mean an end to state control. The government tightly … Continue reading “Why rail fares should be deregulated”

Why do politicians advocate policies which deal with the symptoms of problems rather than the underlying issues directly? In the … Continue reading “Faulty rent control plans reflect the shallowness of UK politics today”

Political leaders often struggle to find their ‘big idea’, their multi-purpose answer to tackle a range of problems at once. … Continue reading “Ed Miliband’s tuition fee cap proposal is wrong in principle and wrong in detail”

It’s not fanciful to argue that the formation of a Liberal-Conservative coalition government last May was helped by the fact … Continue reading “How truly liberal is the coalition government?”