The ASI published ‘Flat Tax - the British Case’ by Andrei Grecu in 2004. It aroused much debate at the time and now, with the prospect of a radical incoming government, it is perhaps time the case was made again.

A landmark deal clinched between the UK and EU to remove checks on food exports will add £9bn to the UK economy and lower food prices, No 10 has said, as the last-minute agreement was secured early on Monday morning.

An incoming UK government that aims to reduce the nanny state of excessive government intervention in personal choices might pursue reforms in several key areas to roll it back.

China is set to flood Britain with cheap vapes, researchers have said, as manufacturers seek to capitalise on the world’s second biggest market after Donald Trump’s tariffs.

There are strong arguments to suggest that the UK Treasury is too focused on maximizing tax revenues at the expense of broader goals such as economic growth, living standards, and fairness.

An underlying and fundamental part of our analysis of what has gone wrong with this sceptered isle is that we simply have too much bureaucracy.

Waitrose has ruled out buying American beef and chicken as it insisted it would stand “shoulder-to-shoulder with our farmers” after Sir Keir Starmer’s US trade deal.

That is, it’s possible to regulate something so much that the protections aimed at disappear.

This week’s post takes foreign policy as first serving the people of the UK, then our friends, then the rest of the world. Once this was known as “realism”.

We do - no really, we do - wonder what goes through minds like these: UK urged not to exploit poor countries in rush for critical minerals

There is a strong case for proposing that those living on the basic UK State Pension or the National Minimum Wage should be exempt from income tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs).

We await the usual insistences as a result of this story: Thames Water refuses to rule out a hosepipe ban as drought looms.