- Social Media Community Notes ‘Too Weak’ For Rumours & Lies of Southport Riots
- Britain’s Benefits System Is Unfair To All Involved
The Government’s screeching u-turn on reforming Personal Independence Payments has distracted attention from a more fundamental problem with Britain’s broken benefits system. Regardless of whether the right people are getting the right kinds of benefits or not, too few of them stop claiming once they’ve started. We’ve got… Read more: Britain’s Benefits System Is Unfair To All Involved - Britain’s ‘Hotel California’ Benefits System, Where People Never Leave…..
- Only Thatcher-sized reforms will end Britain’s malaiseThis article is the first in a fortnightly series of policy proposals from John Penrose and the Centre for Small State Conservatives. Nobel-Prize-Winning economist Paul Krugman famously said “productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it’s almost everything.” His words should send shivers down every British spine, because UK productivity… Read more: Only Thatcher-sized reforms will end Britain’s malaise
- We don’t need to nationalise our railways to fix them
One of the new Labour Government’s first acts was to hand a big wedge of taxpayer cash to already well-paid train drivers, along with a promise of more as rolling rail renationalisation steadily tightens its grip over the next few years. But it hasn’t worked. Train strikes have carried… Read more: We don’t need to nationalise our railways to fix them - Will Cunliffe’s UK water report be brave, or ‘just one more wafer-thin mint’ instead?
- Merging the UK carbon trading scheme with Europe’s is a disastrous mistake
- Reeves’ Welcome U-Turn on Cash ISAs
Good to see Rachel Reeves thinking better of cutting the amount people can save into cash ISAs to as little as £4,000, according to The Telegraph. She would have hung millions of savers out to dry if she’d gone ahead and, anyway, there’s a better & fairer way… Read more: Reeves’ Welcome U-Turn on Cash ISAs - Knowing ‘What Works’ Will Help Good Growth
Fed up with a Britain where nothing works anymore? This article for Academy of Social Sciences proposes a single, simple but fundamental change to Government procurement rules to start fixing the problem. John Penrose makes the case for stronger evaluation of public policy and for drawing on the… Read more: Knowing ‘What Works’ Will Help Good Growth - How To Solve Britain’s Red Tape CrisisLabour’s bonfire of the quangos is barely smouldering so far. The run-up to last month’s ‘Spring-Statement-that-honestly-wasn’t-an-Emergency-Budget’ included a big anti-red tape fanfare, with lots of worthy rhetoric about tackling bureaucratic complexity and regulatory risk-aversion. But it always starts this way, because talk is cheap. Governments promise to slash… Read more: How To Solve Britain’s Red Tape Crisis