Here we go again
Britain’s wealthiest areas will face the biggest council tax rises, experts have predicted.
But such proposals would require a sense of political imagination…
But the stock exchange isn’t providing enough access to capital, and listed companies aren’t investing to boost growth.
Boomers versus Gen Z
In the UK, different generations have faced vastly different circumstances, technologically, economically, socially, and even environmentally.
To be cynical but correct all the same
It is wholly true that GDP is not the measure of everything - Simon Kuznets, who invented the concept, pointed that out.
Marx, Foucault and Derrida
Marx’s original thesis of the Sociology of Knowledge argues that ideologies (religion, philosophy, law, etc.) are not neutral or ‘objective,’ but instead reflect the material interests and class positions of those who produce them. Marx
As we keep insisting, it’s markets that matter
China is urging its electric vehicle industry to stop cutting prices and rein in production amid fears that persistent deflation is imperilling economic growth.
Dissolution of the universities
The case for a "dissolution of the universities," modelled metaphorically on Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, rests on several systemic failures in modern higher education.
A little help for Liam Byrne here
Mr. Byrne - yea he of “There’s no money left” - is pondering (in committee and therefore ponderously) why the British financial markets don’t fund British business.
Youth exit matters
It’s not just millionaires who are leaving the UK in droves, an ASI-commissioned poll shows that up to a third of young people are considering moving away, or actively preparing to do so.
Rather missing the point of the capitalists
You wish to do that then you go right ahead. We are, after all, believers in those free market things around here.