It is fair to say that when the BBC decided that only high viewing figures would justify the licence fee, it took a wrong turn and should have concentrated instead on public service television

Sir John Cowperthwaite, when running Hong Kong, famously banned anyone collecting the GDP statistics on the grounds that some damn fool would only try to do something with them.

There’s a compelling case for why the NHS should make deals with other countries to treat NHS patients abroad to reduce waiting times

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”.

In George’s column about fisheries:

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.

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. 

Cornwall should be made into an industrial hub to fuel net zero, government scientists have urged Ed Miliband.

I keep returning to the view I expressed in my PhD thesis ‘Trial and Error and the Idea of Progress.’

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.

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. 

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.