Tag: Economy

Green energy tycoon and top Labour donor Dale Vince is calling on the Government to soak the rich to meet trade unions' demands for increased public sector pay.

In a summary of his excellent new book, Return to Growth, Jon Moynihan argues that the UK's economic growth has been suffocated by a bloated public sector, punitively high taxes and too much red tape.

Britain’s public sector pensions bill is now larger than the size of the U.K. economy after it soared past £2.6 trillion for the first time, official figures show.

Many on the 'new Right' propose that we should be 'Left on the economy and Right on culture'. This is not really possible, argues Dr David McGrogan: a state addicted to intervening in the economy will intervene everywhere.

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.

There is an aspect of higher education that one never hears spoken – the cost of frittering away the productive working time of the young, an invisible drain on our society far larger than the direct costs of education.

Things are not going well in Germany’s bid to reach Net Zero by 2045, says Ross Clark, with the scramble to back out of green economic self-harm becoming more and more frantic as reality hits.

The striking junior doctors are demanding a 35% pay rise. It sounds like a lot, but their larger point – that the NHS is a poorly managed, bureaucratic basket case with no clue about financial incentives – is valid.

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.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank may be a very literal example of the 'Get woke, go broke' phenomenon, as reports suggest the bank was more focused on displaying its woke credentials than risk management.