In the run up to the election, the Labour Party has addressed the most critical problem facing the ‘lost generation’, … Continue reading “If politicans are serious about house building targets, they must deregulate planning laws”

Nobody quite remembers when and why this law originally came to pass, but at some point in the distant past, … Continue reading “Housing and bread: an analogy”

The Right-to-Buy programme, which enabled council tenants to buy the home they lived in at a discount price, was one … Continue reading “Right to Buy is not to blame for British housing shortage”

●  Philip Booth suggests it is not “morally bankrupt” to oppose a “Robin Hood” tax ●  Patrick Basham criticises the … Continue reading “Economics on the web (28.3.10)”

Classical liberals, and many Conservatives, will tend to take a dim view of government intervention, but should they be equally … Continue reading “The right and wrong form of government intervention”

It is now almost exactly 30 years since one of Mrs Thatcher’s iconic social policies was launched. On 20 December … Continue reading “The Right to Buy: thirty years on”