- Top Bosses are singing our song….
One of Britain’s top business leaders, CEO of Next Lord Wolfson, came up with recommendations which are strikingly similar to ours at the Centre for Policy Studies annual Thatcher conference - More ‘West Wing’ & less ‘The Thick Of It’ please…..
Anyone who’s ever watched ‘The West Wing’ knows it’s only fiction, but wishes it wasn’t. It’s a glowing picture of how government ought to work. But as the never-ending fallout from Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the US shows, the reality is often closer to ‘The Thick Of It’ or ‘Yes… Read more: More ‘West Wing’ & less ‘The Thick Of It’ please….. - Stop bandaging the symptoms of poverty – try curing them instead.
- John interviewed by Young Conservative Network
Great fun covering everything from Honours Reforms to why Kemi (probably) supports Small State Conservatives too…… - Getting Britain Off The Benefits Treadmill
This week saw Labour’s key benefits reforms come into force. Ministers and their outriders in the press and social media have been arguing that measures like abolishing the two-child benefit cap will cut poverty. But everybody else sees people who work paying higher taxes to fund benefits for those who… Read more: Getting Britain Off The Benefits Treadmill - Why Wes Streeting is (nearly) right about Patient Power
- How ‘Patient Power’ could transform the NHS
Every so often, in up-and-coming neighbourhoods full of progressive metropolitan types, a group of community-minded idealists will set up a restaurant where diners pay what they feel their meal is really worth, rather than anything as capitalist or bourgeois as a preset price. They don’t last long, of… Read more: How ‘Patient Power’ could transform the NHS - Let’s use pupil power to shrink bad Uni courses & cut student debt
Almost buried under this week’s avalanche of news reports on war in Iran and who-said-what-to whom in the newly-released Mandelson files, was an announcement from the Treasury Select Committee launching an inquiry into ‘widespread dissatisfaction’ over student loan repayment terms. They can say that again. It may not be as… Read more: Let’s use pupil power to shrink bad Uni courses & cut student debt - Britain needs economic security – and a sovereign wealth fund
In his Sunday Telegraph column, journalist & commentator Liam Halligan name-checks John & supports a Sovereign Wealth Fund This is a before and after moment in the Middle East. We’re in the early stages of a profound recalibration – which could last months. Amidst the humanitarian fallout, the… Read more: Britain needs economic security – and a sovereign wealth fund - Starmer’s net zero surrender to EU will ‘damage British business’
The Commission for Carbon Competitiveness (where John is a Founding Commissioner) wrote a letter warning the PM to put the brakes on negotiations to rejoin Europe’s Emissions Trading SchemeCamilla TurnerSunday Political Editor Sir Keir Starmer has been warned not to hand Brussels a “blank cheque” over net zero rules which… Read more: Starmer’s net zero surrender to EU will ‘damage British business’