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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Why Britain Needs A Sovereign Wealth Fund
If the definition of political success is when other people start claiming your ideas as their own, then this week’s speech by Richard Tice committing Reform UK to creating a UK sovereign wealth fund ought to count as a pretty big win.…
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UK Politics Needs A Deep Clean
How times change. It was only last autumn when I outlined here in CapX how an already-sleazy new Government needed an integrity reset to clean up politics and save its own reputation at the same time. Now it is increasingly clear that we are…
