If you’re thinking the NHS cannot possibly appropriate any more of the country’s time, energy, resources and money, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warns otherwise.
There is simply no good reason to suppose that public ownership would lead to better management and higher investment when historically it has produced the opposite.
Most women are not Jeremy Clarkson-style petrolheads; their cars take them to work, their children to school, and their elderly to the health centre.
In the 2019 election, all four major party manifestos presented Net Zero as a fait accompli: none made clear the upheaval it demands, the opportunity costs involved or the dramatic impact on our quality of life.
The Opposition may be ahead in the polls, but on issue after issue the left finds itself on the back foot. But will the Government have the boldness to capitalise on this moment?
The accelerating trend of branch closures and declining numbers of free-to-use ATMs make it increasingly difficult for the old and vulnerable to access basic services.
Forcing the Forces to fall into line with civilian-based dogma concerning gender, race and sexual-orientation quotas, as well as equality of opportunity in combat zones, has been a two-decades’ long waste of time.
Bear in mind that if a week is a long time in politics, 16 months is an eternity. A lot can happen between now and October 2024, surely the earliest date for the general election.
Contrast the leisurely approach towards this allegedly extinction-level threat with the Government’s response to the pandemic.
There is always a majority for heaping extra taxes on other people. But such policies have a habit of sticking around, and drawing more and more people in.
Most of us can get used to dysfunction in the busy and familiar setting of our day-to-day lives. But a change of scene offers a different perspective.
Too many investors have prioritised moral posturing over either the needs of the nation in a dangerous world or maximising their returns.
By publishing the Lockdown Files, Isabel Oakshott’s has exposed the complicity of much of our media class in the mishandling of the pandemic.
Exiling her is a temporary fix but solves nothing.