Why industrial policies don’t work
Chlorine-washed chicken is not, in fact, an important issue. Every bag of washed salad in the European Union - and UK - has been washed in chlorinated water.
Ending the March/April chaos
The mania of roadworks and construction projects that bedevil every Spring is partly caused by the desire of local governments to spend their financial budgets rather than have them expire as the financial year ends in early April.
Getting Dick to go Viking on the system - it’s the only way
As we suggested yesterday about the planning system: Freedom from the system itself will only apply to those bureaucratic micturation schemes.
A UK statute of limitations
Most legal systems worldwide, including those of the US and EU member states, have well-established statutes of limitations for many criminal and civil matters.
Dick the Butcher had a point
We list these achievements not to boorishly hark back to our country’s former glory, but to remind us how prosperity was painstakingly built – brick by brick, track by track – to inspire us to look forward with hope and possibility.
The sharpest nettle is the Town and Country Planning Act.
Replacing the UK’s Town and Country Planning Acts with a more liberalised, market-led zoning system would represent a radical shift - probably the biggest planning reform since the 1947 Act itself.
The Psychology of Economic Nationalism
Frank Knight once observed, “The free traders win the debates, but the protectionists win the elections.”
When the facts change I change my mind - Pray, what do you do, Sir?
As we all know one of the exceptions to free trade, all free trade, all the time free trade, is national security.
This is the point of it all - knitting bobble hats for post boxes
This could be viewed as a little reductionist, even concentrating too much on a tiny detail, but the entire point of this whole civilisation thing is to knit bobble hats for post boxes.
But, but, this is the very point of tariffs
Do tariffs allow an outbreak of capitalist greed? The Lizzie Warren explanation? Well, actually, yes.
They don’t like competition these capitalists, don’t like it up ‘em
It is competition in a free marketplace - free in the sense that others may enter - that turns that greed driven capitalism to the consumer benefit.
After the Rose Garden - 2 - Reliability
No-one knows where Trump’s on-again-off again tariffs are going to end up. The only certain thing is that the rest of the world is in for an overdose of once-bitten-twice-shy, scrabbling for new supply-chains and trade relations amid a general atmosphere of increased distrust.