Treating NHS patients abroad
There’s a compelling case for why the NHS should make deals with other countries to treat NHS patients abroad to reduce waiting times
Ignorance leads to bad policy
Some of the country’s biggest retailers have written to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, warning that the government’s plans to overhaul business rates risk turning UK high streets into “ghost towns”.
If only George Monbiot would actually listen to people
In George’s column about fisheries:
Freddie Hayek just got it so wrong, didn’t he?
That idea that a centrally planned, centrally controlled, centrally paid for, National Health Service would end up as being part of the Road to Serfdom.
The Clock Is Ticking on Britain’s Rare Earth Dependence
Last week, the United States learned its lesson — don’t become over-reliant on strategic competitors for crucial mining capacity. The UK should act before this Chinese trap strangles it too.
Sorry, no, you can’t have geothermal - it’s illegal, see?
Cornwall should be made into an industrial hub to fuel net zero, government scientists have urged Ed Miliband.
Progress by selective death rates
I keep returning to the view I expressed in my PhD thesis ‘Trial and Error and the Idea of Progress.’
Why we don’t believe Gabriel Zucman about wealth
So the latest proposal is that: One mechanism for achieving this goal is a wealth tax on the ultra-wealthy. The Tax Policy Center recently released an analysis of a new policy called the Five & Dime tax.
The line item veto
A line-item veto would allow the President of the United States to veto specific provisions, usually spending items, within a bill, particularly appropriation bills, without rejecting the entire legislation. The two issues to consider are whether it could be done and whether it should be done.
Planning the world with the wrong information
Millions of people are prevented from having the number of children they want by a toxic mix of economic barriers and sexism, a new UN report has warned.
Dealing with warming
The UK emits about 1% of global CO₂ emissions, whereas countries like China and the US contribute far more (30% and 15%, respectively).
The night before the spending review
On Wednesday, the government is set to publish the results of its long-awaited spending review.