Nationalisation normally costs taxpayers dear and ends in failure By johnredwood on April 13, 2025 HS2 our fully nationalised railway has cost a fortune and will never reach the North as planned. The

Taxes always do damage By johnredwood on April 6, 2025 The UK government found out the hard way that raising taxes on businesses for daring to employ people leads to fewer vacancies and more job

mind what spending you cut By johnredwood on April 3, 2025 I read that the triple lock is not affordable, and see people supporting the idea of cutting Personal Independence payments. Of all the

What the UK needs to do on trade By johnredwood on April 4, 2025 The UK needs to close a deal with President Trump now he has given the UK an opening with talks and the lowest rate of tariff. He

By johnredwood on April 2, 2025 The US has done plenty of homework to prepare for “Liberation Day”. Their doomsday book of tariffs and trade frictions produces long lists of extra costs and

By johnredwood on March 8, 2025 The government is keen to put prices up. It has hiked rail fares by double inflation, and Council tax. They have allowed large double figure percentage rises in water

The Chancellor and growth By johnredwood on January 24, 2025 Today in my lecture at 11 am at All Souls College and on zoom I will set out a range of policies that could boost growth in the UK. I will

The US in itself is the largest and perhaps the oldest pyramid scheme in the world. "Elon Musk Sounds the Alarm: America’s Debt Death Spiral Elon Musk has warned that the United States is barreling

By johnredwood on December 19, 2024 Five months in, several months talking down the economy and a bad tax raising budget have done damage. Inflation is up from 2% to 2.6% on the CPI. Unemployment us

Anonymous Zoomer: How Britain's social contract undermines young people like me MATT GOODWIN DEC 18 Matt Goodwin’s Substack goes to 64,400 subscribers from 172 countries and thousands of paying