Tag: Economic crisis

How much bigger does the welfare crisis need to become before it is a political talking point, asks Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.

Buenos Aires protests against President Milei's economic reforms have incurred a security bill of £57,500 for the organisers.

The rise of the American-led West was supposed to be the 'end of history' as liberal democracy triumphed. But with the self-hating West stuck in a Net Zero doom loop, is the ascendancy of the autocracies now unstoppable?

According to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Brexit has been a major cause of the woeful performance of the U.K. economy over the last few years. That's nonsense, says Matthew Lynn. The truth is it was lockdown.

As our politicians cheer economic disasters as supposed wins for the climate, can't they see the damage they are doing to our country with their headlong pursuit of Net Zero, asks David Craig.

A major source of our current economic malaise – now approaching the highest tax burden since records began – is the cost and impact of the Covid lockdowns, a price which must never be forgotten, says Kate Andrews.

Andrew Bailey recently complained that early retirees are driving inflation. But are over-50s really choosing to leave the workforce early, or are they being pushed out by diversity-obsessed employers?

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the current wider financial crisis are a result of the economic fallout from years of lockdown policies that crippled Western economies and filled them with low-interest debt.