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Economic Illiteracy and Dogma: this Budget encapsulates it perfectly

11th March 2024 Emile Woolf 0

As usual, the meaningless minutiae of tax-fiddling in last week’s budget stole the headlines and obscured what’s really going on. It would help if the linguistics were clearer: a tax “cut” should simply refer to [more…]

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The Chancellor’s “Autumn Mis-Statement” – An Exercise in Fiscal Subterfuge

4th December 2023 Emile Woolf 0

The deeply embedded disconnect between hype and reality looms larger than ever in government thinking. A little over a year ago Liz Truss attempted a dose of supply-side reforms to address the country’s desperate need [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fourteen

3rd December 2023 Going Postal 0

Monday Well, it’s Monday again and surprise, surprise it’s wet. It was nice not to have the pro-Hamas lot ‘marching for peace’ in central London on Saturday. I really wish I could understand what they [more…]

Business

Is The Pendulum Swinging Back To Sanity?

13th March 2023 Emile Woolf 0

I detect signs of a nascent backlash. There seems to be a realistic hope that people are waking up to the reality of the prevailing insanity inflicted on them by officialdom in all its guises. [more…]

Economics

Economic Consequences of Demented Leadership

12th December 2022 Emile Woolf 0

The woes we face are not theoretical. They are real, and worsen by the day. Very few members of the public really understand their causes, still less what can be done to reverse the decline. [more…]

Conservatives

Is this government Conservative? Socialist? Actions, not words, count!

28th November 2022 Emile Woolf 0

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have had to bear the brunt of the markets’ predictable reaction to their mini-budget last month. Although amateurishly presented and poorly explained, it was nevertheless replete with strategy for growth. [more…]

Conservatives

The Missing Factor in Britain’s Economic Recovery Plan

7th November 2022 Patrick Barron 0

Despite much anticipation the economic recovery plan proposed by Britain’s Tory Party after the departure of former prime minister, Boris Johnson, is missing one key ingredient that will ensure its failure–spending cuts. The new “temporary [more…]

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Dancing With the Dragon, Part One

18th January 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

China is one single indivisible territory containing one single indivisible people. It is the most populous nation on earth, the world’s second-biggest economy and has a longer continuous history than any other country – three [more…]

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