The Government has plans to extend the school day, which could mean the early morning starts often seen in America.
Without going beyond purely material considerations, “stuff” is not the same thing as wealth
“There are more jobs in Britain than ever before.”
GDP is a convenient, but wildly inaccurate, measure of our true material wealth
Bitcoin can be seen as a completely free market in which there is no hand-holding by regulators and no government bail-outs
It’s time to increase tax thresholds, extend the one per cent cap on public sector pay, and cut welfare spending for better-off people.
Benefit cards for first time offenders and steeper punishments for ones who repeat make sense.
The big utilities control the grid, but the technology now exists to allow consumers to operate their own ‘microgrids’
The Work and Pensions Secretary is right to roll back Labour’s culture of welfare dependency.
But the Government says the firm is “unprofessional” for wanting an early exit
A new report by Theos finds support for reciprocity and mutual support rather than means testing.
But what is this ‘hard work’ of which our politicians speak? Do they in fact, just mean ‘work’ – as in an honest day’s work?
If national government were as efficient as local government we’d much closer to balancing the books.
Not a single firm has signed up to the party’s jobs guarantee scheme – about which there are also unanswered cost questions.