Terrible news from the oil market. The price is now about $65 and Goldman Sachs is predicting it could fall to $40. So, given their forecasting record, I'm fairly confident we'll be paying … (View Post)

There are plenty - the ASI, the IEA etc. But they don't matter much. The solutions to our economic stagnation and decline aren't difficult or abstract. Simple undergraduate economics teache… (View Post)

Absolutely. Back then, a discredited Labour government, following a deeply unpopular Conservative government, was leading the country to economic stagnation and decline through big state economic mis… (View Post)

The important question for this country is, does Argentina show that our political class's cynical but economically disastrous strategy of never offering the electorate any hard choices and repe… (View Post)

Also staggeringly hypocritical. Why do lots of houses cost more than £2 million? Because the government, through its own cowardice and incompetence, has failed completely for decades to allow enough … (View Post)