- 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 - 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’ - 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. I first proposed the idea in a policy paper more… Read more: Why Britain Needs A Sovereign Wealth Fund - 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 facing a growing integrity crisis in UK politics… Read more: UK Politics Needs A Deep Clean - Why rail renationalisation is a 40-year-old doom loop & how to avoid it.
- John’s interview for The Capitalist podcast
- Britain needs millions more cheap, beautiful, affordable homes. Here’s how
